Basic Supervision

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Attend, and you'll gain the same field-tested techniques that top managers always come back to. Proven methods you can rely on to help you lead a more productive department ... delegate tasks with authority ... and establish yourself as a dedicated professional that employees look up to. If you're serious about increasing your professional worth as a supervisor, these are core skills you can't afford to be without.

How You Will Benefit…

• Know how to discipline employees legally
• Save hours a day using effective delegation skills
• Motivate your employees with non-monetary rewards
• Stay in control with proven time-management techniques

Who should attend ...
Any manager or supervisor who wants to boost productivity, morale and the quality of employees' work. Whether you're a new manager or a veteran just looking to review the basics, this seminar can help you master the fundamental building blocks of effective supervision. From goal-setting to negotiation, employee motivation to team-building, you'll cover it all in this one-day session

What You Will Cover ...
Basic Supervisory Skills

• 3 essential ingredients of supervising
• How to react to problems positively - not negatively
• Simple, but effective, steps you can take to help employees manage their time better
• Developing essential management skills
• How to avoid the most common traps in delegating work
• When disciplining or firing - how to document to protect yourself legally
• Maintain 1 simple habit - and take control of your time
• How to make the process of firing easier on everyone involved
• How to make performance evaluations positive and motivational

Handling Problems And Problem Employees

• Conflicts, tardiness, complaints, discouragement and other common
problems - master the 5 universal steps toward solving them all
• Getting management to back you up
• Step-by-step disciplinary plans
• Firing - how to do it right and not lose sleep over it
• How to hold employees accountable for their share of the workload
• BONUS! Take home an action plan for effectively handling your problem employees. You'll be able to start solving the conflict immediately

Effective Communication Skills

• How to communicate better with your employees
• Persuading uncommunicative employees to listen
• Ensuring your employees get the message with nonverbals
• How to break down the barriers that block communication
• How to encourage employees to set - and reach - their goals
• Establishing long- and short-term goals
• Applying personal strengths to your goals
• How to develop "ownership" in the workplace that hits productivity targets

Boosting Productivity

• Understanding the 3 basic de-motivators and how to avoid them
• How to keep good employees
• Turning negative attitudes around
• Communicating your expectations to employees for superior results
• How to squeeze an extra 30 minutes of productive work out of your day
• Capitalizing on employee strengths to maximize efficiency in their work

You And The Personal Inventory

• A unique exercise that will tell you more about yourself than you've ever known
• Take home practical suggestions, tailored specifically to you, for managing time, delegating work, setting goals and solving problems
• BONUS! Your Personal Inventory is included in the seminar fee. It will become your best resource for insight into your supervisory style and how to apply it to any situation

Sponsor Background:
Since 1977, Padgett-Thompson has been providing popular, skill-building training that dramatically improves the way people work. Whether you're needing training through our public seminars, online training, books, tapes and software -- or you want us to bring it directly to your place of business through our Padgett-Thompson On-site division -- you can be sure you're receiving the latest in business strategy, best practices, and skill-building information.

But through it all, no matter how far we've gone or how fast we've grown, we still operate on the same principles stated by our founders -- provide the highest quality training at reasonable prices and back it up with a 100 percent guarantee. If you're not happy with your training, you get your registration fee back. It's what's made us the most trusted training company in the industry.

We invite you to take a look around our site and experience what Padgett-Thompson customers have known for years: You will achieve more with us!

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