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Carole with 2007 GAO International Fellowship students.

 

Supervision Workshops
Supervisors of high-performing teams optimize each member's performance and demonstrate strong leadership skills.  Our Supervision and Leadership Learning Workshops are designed to provide supervisors and potential supervisors with teambuilding, communications, and performance management skills for effective leadership.


 

Mastering Challenging Performance Conversations Through Direct Communications (1 day)

  • Better understand the supervisor’s responsibility for having performance conversations;
  • Be able to set effective expectations;
  • Understand and apply tips and techniques for successfully delivering feedback for improved performance;
  • Value the importance of documentation;
  • Benefit from hands-on practice with difficult conversations;
  • Understand the importance and components of direct communication;
  • Successfully resolve conflict;
  • andHandle emotionally-charged conversations.

 

Generational Diversity (1/2-day)
For the first time in history, we have four generations in the workplace. Each generation brings strengths and also challenges for the other generations. Understanding and respecting each generation’s strengths is critical for a productive and healthy workplace. This webinar will point out the differences between the generations and strategies for overcoming the annoyances that one generation may feel toward another because of these differences.

  • A definition of the “generations”
  • An understanding of the events and values that shape each generation
  • What each generation appreciates about the others and what annoys them
  • How to build healthy workplaces, where generational differences are respected

 

Human Resources Laws

  • Overview and updates on equal employment opportunity and inclusiveness laws
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1991
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Family and Medical Leave Act
  • Employment discrimination
  • Harassment

 

Including Diversity and Excluding Harassment in the Workplace

  • How to perceive and respond to inappropriate behavior
  • Important steps to overcome unproductive and damaging situations
  • Defining "harassment"
  • Discussing the laws governing harassment
  • How inappropriate humor can affect the workplace
  • Defining "quid pro quo" sexual harassment
  • Guarding against harassment

 

Setting Expectations, Providing Feedback, and Coaching

  • Understanding the performance management cycle
  • Setting and communicating performance expectations
  • Delivering quality feedback
  • Overcoming barriers to delivering feedback
  • Positive and constructive feedback
  • Improving others’ performance through coaching

 

Stress and Time Management

  • Effects of stress in the workplace
  • Stress reduction techniques
  • Identifying Timewasters
  • Time management techniques
  • Distinguishing what’s important and urgent
  • Organizational improvement techniques
  • Priority setting
  • Handling interruptions
  • Overcoming mental blocks and anxiety
  • Managing stress and time to enhance personal and professional effectiveness

 

Teambuilding

  • Differentiating between teams and groups
  • Stages of team development
  • Building high-performing teams
  • Sustaining high-performing teams
  • Assessing team performance
  • Role of a team leader
  • Developing trust
  • Providing feedback—positive and constructive
  • Running effective teams meetings—formally and informally
  • Problem solving
  • Conflict resolution
  • Motivating team members
  • Expectation setting, feedback, and coaching

 

Supervision

  • Role of the supervisor
  • Understanding group dynamics
  • Building effective teams
  • Stages of team development
  • Active listening
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Problem solving
  • Decision making
  • Enhancing morale
  • Managing team meetings
  • Managing conflict

 

Solutions for Supervisors (3 days)

  • Transitioning to the role of supervisor
  • Human resources laws, policies, and procedures
  • Performance measurement: setting expectations, giving feedback, and coaching
  • Rating performance
  • Handling performance problems and misconduct
  • Rewarding for good performance
  • Resolving conflict

 

 

Leadership Workshops
Although some people seem like “born leaders,” most of us require knowledge and skill building to evolve from competent supervisors and managers to high-performing leaders. Our courses will build your confidence and enhance your leadership competencies


Creative Problem Solving

  • Embracing change
  • The dynamics of creativity
  • Impediments to creativity
  • Understanding learning styles
  • Assessing your learning style
  • Unleashing others’ creativity
  • Innovative decision making approaches
  • Practical techniques for creative problem solving

 

Leading By Example: A Mentoring Workshop

  • Defining "mentoring"
  • Identifying the benefits of mentoring
  • Mentoring as a leadership skill
  • Potential barriers to mentoring
  • Creating a positive mentoring environment
  • Effective mentoring techniques
  • Effective questioning and listening techniques
  • Setting expectations and coaching
  • Motivation
  • Teambuilding
  • Conflict management
  • Questions mentors ask

 

Leading Others

  • Defining leadership
  • Leadership theories
  • Leadership and management: what’s the difference?
  • Understanding your preferred leadership style
  • Developing trust
  • Promoting change
  • Seeking feedback
  • Being a visionary

 

Managing Change in a Changing World

  • The importance of change
  • Overcoming the challenges that change brings
  • Identifying ways to lead and be led
  • Clarifying your preferred leadership style
  • Listing the critical components of setting and receiving effective expectations
  • Applying a conflict-resolution model

 


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