Supervisor Essentials: Team Leadership

Build and lead high-performing teams for success

Getting work done in any organization requires leaders to be capable of leading productive, effective teams. In high-performance teams, members’ experience, skills, and talents are combined to solve complex organizational problems, execute more efficiently, make better decisions, enhance creativity, and produce consistently superior results. To lead effectively, you need to solve problems quickly, take initiative, and create value for your organization and customers. You can build the next generation of leaders and individual contributors through this engaging and relevant training.

This skill building session gives you the chance to:

• Learn the traits and qualities of being a great team leader
• Understand team member personality styles and how to lead them
• Redirect team conflict towards constructive rather than destructive results

Teamwork is choosing to work together, and team building improves on an aspect of the team’s work.

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a team and a group of people? Or how to build a trusting team and inspire them to collectively become high performers? Effective teamwork can potentially build strong employee relationships and is an ongoing, dynamic process. This interactive session will explore these questions and offer best practice tips to build a supportive, trusting, and respectful team that stays together, works collaboratively towards common goals, and achieves together utilizing the 4 C’s of a Team Identity.

By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

• Understand why teams, teamwork, and team building are all needed in the workplace
• Understand the relationship between teamwork and team building to achieve peak performance
• Apply team building strategies for improved group dynamics, guiding teams toward high performance

Take action to set and achieve your career goals

Professional development for yourself and your team members starts on the first day of the job. Having a plan to guide people toward success is essential for both the individual and the business. A partnership between a team member and a leader is essential to identify the skills and resources necessary to advance career and company goals. It all starts with evaluating your team.

This skill-building session gives you the chance to:

• Learn the purpose and value of creating a professional development plan (PDP)
• Summarize the steps needed to create a PDP
• Examine where you are now and where you want to be in the future both as an individual and for your team as a whole • Create a plan, including timelines, to fill the gap (including training, development, and other strategies)

Get control of your projects and time once and for all!

“The key isn’t to prioritize what is on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities”, said Stephen Covey. The essence of that quote is about using your time intentionally. You are in control of it. But how do we know what to put on our schedule, what to prioritize? Easy, what are your goals? And if you don’t know what those are, then you are absolutely in the right place.

In this knowledge building session you’ll be able to:

• Learn the difference between goals and objectives
• Interpret the difference between important and urgent activities
• Illustrate how proactive planning can effectively manage time
• Recognize barriers to achievement which can hinder success

Developing the next generation of leaders in your organization

The role of any supervisor includes helping their team grow as competent individuals in their current jobs. The organization has provided you with a resource (your people) and expects you to maximize that resource. This includes how we direct, coach, support, delegate, provide feedback, and constructively criticize. This session focuses on providing these skills and applying them based on the employee and the situation. We’ll also introduce the concepts of being a mentor, including how to identify a protégé.

This knowledge-building session gives you the chance to:

• Explain the difference between coaching and mentoring
• Understand how to best set up your coachee and mentee for success
• Demonstrate proficiency in applying a diverse range of coaching and mentoring tools, techniques, and skills in real-world workplace scenarios

Learn the foundations of change management to keep evolving and moving forward!

Change is inevitable, growth is optional. This is easy to say, but can be challenging to implement. Once a desired change is identified and committed to is when the real challenge starts.

By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

• Identify the fundamentals of the change process
• Examine the spectrum of reactions to change
• Build confidence supporting team members in managing transitions
• Embrace change as an avenue for personal and professional growth