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Supervisory Skills

Essential Skills of Leadership
Essential Skills of Leadership (ESL) is the first step to developing successful managers. By focusing on three critical management skills, the program establishes a methodology for productive interactions between team members and team leaders. ESL helps experienced managers, new managers, and aspiring managers refocus on the basics – the skills required to manage the individual while also leading the team. (4 hours)

Essential Skills of Communicating
Essential Skills of Communicating (ESC) provides the tools necessary to develop clear, concise messages. Focusing on communication as a two-way process, the program can help even experienced managers improve their messages by making them clear, well organized, and aimed at the needs and interests of the listener. By developing the essential skills of communicating, managers improve relations with their team members and increase productivity. (4 hours)

Effective Discipline
Effective Discipline helps managers learn effective techniques for addressing problem behaviors. Using communication skills, the manager works to preserve the individual’s self-respect and encourage the best kind of discipline – self-discipline. (4 hours)

Developing Performance Goals and Standards
Unless managers and team leaders are successful in spelling out the organization’s specific goals, their team members are not going to know how to meet those objectives. This module shows trainees how to establish specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and timeframed performance goals. It then illustrates the steps that gain team member agreement and commitment to performance goals. (4 hours)

Coaching Job Skills
Coaching Job Skills helps managers learn how to effectively coach individuals through a process of observation, analysis and communication. By carefully planning one-on-one discussions, managers can have the greatest impact and gain individual commitment to achieving results. (4 hours)

Delegating
Delegating helps managers master the skills needed to effectively assign work to others. By clearly communicating expectations and encouraging participation and involvement, managers can use delegating to develop team members’ skills and abilities. (4 hours)

Managing Complaints
Managers and team leaders are often the first to hear team member complaints. And even though sometimes they may seem unimportant, each complaint should be addressed and resolved. This module shows how to resolve simple complaints and identify the hidden agendas that so often underlie the chronic grievances. (4 hours)

Resolving Conflicts
Resolving Conflicts helps managers develop skills to identify the source of team member conflicts. Using effective communication and management techniques, managers can help individuals understand another point of view and move beyond the conflict. (4 hours)

Communicating Up
Most managers and team leaders realize the importance of upward communication, but few accept the responsibility for the quality and effectiveness of communicating with their own managers. Managers and team leaders will learn how to frame communication so that a desired result is achieved. (4 hours)

Supporting Change
This class helps managers learn to understand and to interpret change. So, managers can more clearly communicate change to their team. This clear communication helps to reduce misunderstanding and anxiety. It also helps the change initiative gain acceptance more quickly – minimizing lost productivity and decreased performance. (4 hours)

Improving Work Habits
Improving Work Habits helps managers learn to clearly and specifically communicate the nature of the problem. It provides a process for working with the individual to develop a plan for addressing the issue while maintaining self-esteem. (4 hours)

Providing Performance Feedback
This module shows the way evaluation is done by the experts. First, relevant performance standards are established. Then the team member’s own performance evaluation is solicited. This accomplished, the stage is set for a summary evaluation that will be clear and credible to the team member. (4 hours)

Communications & Collaboration
In this seminar participants will learn the key components of effective communication and collaboration. Increase your awareness of individual interpersonal behaviors and the potential impact on others. Learn how your behavior affects collaboration and how to add flexibility to your communication style. (3 hours)

Building Leadership Skills
This seminar will teach participants the major competencies necessary to become a good leader. Learn about different leadership styles, when they are appropriate to use, gain insights into your own leadership and the impact of your style on others. (3 hours)

High Performance Teamwork
This highly interactive workshop will teach participants the necessary components for effective teamwork. Learn about the four dimensions necessary to manage a group of people so they perform better as a team using an interactive case study. (3 hours)

Solving Performance Problems
This seminar is designed to help participants identify the source of performance problems and the possible solutions. You will learn the techniques necessary to help yourself and coach others in solving performance problems. You will apply these skills to real life performance problems. (3 hours)

People Management 101
Learn about the six most important people management actions you will take as a supervisor or manager and the biggest people management mistakes made. Learn about hiring, interviewing, progressive discipline and termination. (6 hours)

The Pygmalion Effect
People rise to the expectations others have for them. “The Pygmalion Effect” shows managers the four ways expectations are transmitted to subordinates and inspires them to raise performance by raising expectations. (2, 4, or 8 hours)

The Extraordinary Leader: Going from Good to Great
Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the difference between good leaders and great leaders, describe and explain the five key insights about leadership, define the 16 competencies of high performing leaders, understand the concept of powerful combinations of strengths and their importance to leadership effectiveness, explain the difference between weaknesses and fatal flaws, and apply strengths and behaviors that demonstrate leadership effectiveness in workplace situations. (8
hours)

Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow
Through the four strategies presented and applied in this program, participants will have the opportunity to learn: what it means to accept the responsibilities of their new role; how to exercise their abilities to set clear boundaries; the value of strengthening their communication skills; and, the importance of taking thoughtful and strategic action. (4 hours)


To schedule a free assessment or consultation, contact:
Melissa Strawser
Coordinator, Business Solutions
Gulf Coast State College
850-872-3818 (p)
850-747-3258 (f)
mstrawser@gulfcoast.edu