Supervisor
Essentials Articles
The
first time that you become responsible for the
performance of a group, your life changes. When you were
an individual contributor, you had pretty much complete
control over what to do in order to achieve better
results. Once you become responsible for a group of
people and their performance, though, that control
disappears and is replaced with influence.
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Monthly Feature Article Archive
Read the best of our Monthly Feature Article Archive, which delves into supervisor essentials for supervisory skills training, motivating employees, hindrances to effective communication, giving and receiving feedback and much more!
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Effective Communication
Supervision is probably the easiest role to understand but the hardest to fulfill. You need to remove any hindrances to Effective Communication and talk directly to employees about what they are going to do, when to do it and how to get the job done.
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Supervisory Feedback
No matter what level of your organization you are, you will have some supervision work where you deal directly with employee results, where you must give Supervisory Feedback to your team. That is a chief goal of supervision.
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Firing, Hiring & Managing Decisions
The higher you move up your organizations
structure, the less power you have (the
ability to directly create results) and the more
influence you have. You have the fate of other people's careers in your hands through your Firing, Hiring & Managing Decisions.
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Goals & Motivation
You are responsible for the Goals & Motivation and performance of others in three distinct ways - your leadership role, your management role, and your supervisory role.
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Employee Productivity
Strategic issues are the ones that affect the
whole organization. Whether you are at the top
of the organization or head of a smaller sub unit, like a division
or office, strategy affects your
employees. The bottom line is often the Employee Productivity of the team under you.
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Roles on Your Team
You are expected to be both a manager and a
supervisor; sorting out priorities
from among many competing avenues. Your staff expect you to
give you direction in assigning the Roles on Your Team and how they will perform their tasks.
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Supervisory Tips & Training
Leadership, management and supervision are three
roles where you most figure out the mix of your roles. You need to develop the tools, techniques,
and tricks learned through Supervisory Tips & Training to fill each of these roles effectively.
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