Managing and
Supervising Effectively

Confronting the Tough Stuff: Management Skills for Supervisors

Series: Essential Supervisory Skills

Course: Confronting the Tough Stuff: Management Skills for Supervisors

Learn how to successfully manage timely “real-life” challenges and increase your value and effectiveness as a leader!

In our rapidly changing business environment, sticky situations are bound to arise. Now you can prepare for the unexpected with enhanced confidence and problem solving skills. You’ll role-play real-life situations that challenge your solid management skills as you handle the issues of today: team dysfunction, mediation between difficult employees and coping and working through “survivor” shock from layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

"Committed to continually improving management, team, and organization performance."

  • Master practical, proven techniques for dealing with uncomfortable, challenging situations
  • Become skilled at trying to avoid potentially litigious situations
  • Write a difficult-to-create performance evaluation
  • Enhance your team-coaching skills
  • Overcome communication barriers to productivity
  • Understand how to supervise while coping with survivor shock
  • How to coach uncooperative employees
  • Constructive and destructive conflict and how to capture conflict’s benefits
  • Techniques for using conflict to increase cohesion
  • The four stages of mediation
  • Learn to delegate effectively to reluctant staffers
  • Motivate “survivors”: strategies for helping employees overcome organizational and interpersonal obstacles to performance
  • How to write helpful, legally-sound performance appraisals

Confronting the Tough Stuff: Management Skills for Supervisor

  • List the Major Topics to Be Considered
  • Discuss the Value of Confronting the “Tough Stuff”
  • List Ground Rules for the Meeting
  • List Collective Goals
  • Complete Pre-Work Exercises to Pinpoint Personal Goals
  • Explain the Contribution Connection©
  • Define “Diversity” and How It Relates to Coaching Difficulties
  • List Specific Behaviors You Expect from Your Employees
  • Reaffirm the Importance of Coaching Today
  • Explain the Value of Eleven Critical Coaching Skills
  • Use the Contribution Connection© to Plan a Coaching Approach for Your Own Most Challenging Employee
  • Discuss Constructive and Destructive Conflict and How to Capture Conflict’s Benefits
  • Describe Four Resolution Positions and Your Own Style Preferences
  • List Techniques for Using Conflict to Increase Cohesion
  • Demonstrate the Contribution Connection©Approach to Resolving Conflict
  • Explain Four Stages of Mediation
  • Mediate Disputes between Others
  • Discuss the Difference between Delegating to an Individual and to a Team
  • List Ways to Make Delegation “Attractive” in Tough Times
  • Explain Six Authority Levels and Explain the Importance of Delegating Them Specifically
  • Develop an Authority Level Matrix for Two Staffers
  • Demonstrate the Contribution Connection© as a Delegation Monitoring Tool and Delegation Meeting Guide
  • Discuss Key Issues for “Survivors”
  • Face the Feelings behind Complaints, Accusations
  • List Strategies for Helping People Through
  • Use the Contribution Connection© to Plan Alliances to Overcome Organizational and Interpersonal Obstacles to Performance
  • Adapt the Contribution Connection© Framework to Draft Hard-to-Write Documents
  • Use Grammar and the “Power of Three” to Confront Tough Writing Tasks
  • Write and Edit Corrective Action Memos That Encourage Behavior Change
  • Write Helpful, Legally-Sound Performance Appraisal Documents
  • Develop and Use a Customized Editing Checklist

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