Local Government Supervisory Essentials

Overcome the many challenges you may encounter when hiring and onboarding a new supervisor, and set the groundwork for a successful transition within the first 90 days

50 Lessons

36 Videos

All

Skill Level

6h

Duration

English

Language

Course Overview

With tightening budgets and increased workloads, the skills and expertise of your existing staff and managers are a valuable resource that must be developed through practical, multi-faceted training and mentoring.

WHY SOME CURRENT STYLES OF TRAINING + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SIMPLY DON'T WORK

It's expensive - Some organizations have budgets that aren't equipped to fund 1-2 days of in-person training, and some companies are not willing to negotiate the fees for the training they offer.
It doesn't stick - If there is little ongoing support after a professional development session, staff may walk away with valuable knowledge that is either forgotten or never put into practice.
It's time-consuming - There may never seem like a "right time" for your entire department to put their immediate work responsibilities on hold to register for team training that could last 1-2 days. Some supervisors view trainings to be a productivity setback (in terms of tasks completed and dates things are due) whereas some supervisors believe that such training works to catalyze productivity and view it as a worthy asset.
It's inconsistent - If the session is poorly organized or implemented (for example, a supervisor doesn't give team members enough notice to attend, or if only a few members of staff attend the in-person training), it is much more difficult to get staff on the same page and more difficult to enjoy the benefits of each lesson learned by the team.

IF YOU COULD...

Give your newly promoted supervisor/manager the tools they need to enhance confidence in their leadership and team management skills...
Provide them with a plan that sets them (and the rest of your team) up for success in their first 90 days...
Support your new supervisor/manager on their journey through professional development and provide them with positive and constructive feedback along the way...
Take the first step in creating a proactive and collaborative work environment as your supervisor/manager steps into a new role.
How much would this mean to your supervisor/manager?
How much would it mean to your organization?
How would it set a precedent for your organization for years to come?

Objectives

With new challenges and responsibilities, a new supervisor or manager will excel if accompanied by the proper resources to aid their success. One of the resources available is this Local Government Supervisory Essentials course, which will help navigate you through some of the challenges and growing pains that come with accepting a new professional role. Our hope is that this course will provide you with opportunities.

Learning Path

Module 1: Course Introduction & Welcome

This is an overview of the key skills supervisors need. This is the section listing out the objectives of the course and what participants can gain from taking this course.

Module 2: Adjusting to Your Role

This course shares methods to help participants deal with the transition to a supervisory role.

Module 3: A Supervisor's Responsibilities

A supervisor has responsibilities to employees, management, and themselves. This session discusses those areas of a supervisor’s role.

Module 4: Action-Centered Leadership

This course deals with how to balance priorities in a supervisory role using the action-centered model developed by John Adair.

Module 5: Making Plans

Planning is a vital part of a successful supervisor’s role. Rather than being adrift on a sea of indecision, planning can help a supervisor to success. This course looks at ideas regarding plans, how to use the Urgent-Important Matrix to help develop a plan, a planning case study, the elements of planning, and planning tools.

Module 6: Setting Goals

The steps between dreaming and achieving involve setting goals and taking action. This module goes through the SPIRIT acronym for participants to learn how to break down goals into several small, achievable goals that will help them get where they want to go.

Module 7: Defining Leadership

This course looks at different facets of leadership through a history of various leadership studies. Then, participants will explore the theory of leadership styles.

Module 8: The Situational Leadership Model

This module goes into the Situational Leadership Model and different styles of leadership, it also checks into our comfort zone as leaders.

Module 9: Your Leadership Type

What’s your type? How about mine? Students will complete a self-assessment to help them identify their leadership style.

Module 10: Developing a High Performing Team

This module looks at the stages of team development, moving a team through those stages, team problem solving, and team leadership.

Module 11: Communication Skills

Communication skills are important for any successful supervisor. Students will define communication and communication barriers. They will also learn about listening and questioning skills. The unit wraps up with information on probing techniques and the communication process itself.

Module 12: Motivating Employees

Motivating employees often falls upon on the shoulders of their supervisor. This unit discusses different motivation techniques that students may apply in their workplace.

Module 13: Orientation and Onboarding

This course looks at orientation and onboarding and the differences between the two. It also guides participants on how to create an effective onboarding and orientation in their workplace.

Module 14: Providing Feedback

One of the jobs of a supervisor is giving feedback to employees. This session covers the six characteristics of effective feedback as well as receiving feedback.

Module 15: Doing Delegation Right

Delegation is more than just unloading tasks you don’t want to do as a supervisor. In this unit, we will define what delegation is.

Module 16: Dealing with Conflict

This unit looks at the conflict resolution process and the problem-solving process.

Module 17: Managing Disciplinary Issues

This unit concludes with a study of disciplinary issues from a supervisor’s point of view, including what is discipline, meeting with an employee for disciplinary purpose, and a sample discipline checklist.

Module 18: Continued Learning

At the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to fill out an action plan for their upcoming days as a supervisor.

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