Successful Management: What Every Supervisor Wants to Know

Instructor:   Jeannette Gerzon, Al Nierenberg

Date:  October 10, 17, and 24, 2008

Time:   8:30-4:00

Register By:  Registration deadlines are two weeks prior to course date, inquire as to availability after two week deadline.

Location:  Babson Executive Conference Center

Notes:  Lunch included

This program requires pre-authorization from your HR department. Contact the HR department to register.

The three-day, interactive training program was created for supervisors and managers who want to ensure excellence in their management and organizational skills. The training style is upbeat, educational, and engaging and takes place on successive Fridays over the span of three weeks. It was designed for new supervisors and for those who have been supervising for up to six years to expand their understanding and awareness of how to be an effective supervisor and manager.

Program design also incorporates participants’ various learning styles through pair and group exercises, role-plays, and other interactive exercises, including discussions and debriefing. Participants will be provided the DISC, a success-oriented self assessment tool. A sense of productivity, enjoyment, and learning are fostered throughout the program.

Participants will consider the questions: What are my styles, values, and tendencies? How can I enhance my supervisory skills? How can I provide my best work and fully contribute to my organization? The training utilizes a tri-part focus of results, process, and relationship that fosters good dialog, understanding of self and others, and enjoyment of work and life.

Participants will:

• Assess their leadership style and practice
• Learn about essential supervisory and management competencies, including: 
  • Performance management
  • Communication skills
  • Meeting management skills
• Assess their organization’s culture and norms
• Develop an on-going individual development plan that supports learning, enjoyment and productivity

Everyday Leadership

Instructor:  Judith Stein, Kande Culver

Date:  April 16, 2009

Time:   9:00-4:00

Register By:  Registration deadlines are two weeks prior to course date, inquire as to availability after two week deadline

Location:   Babson Executive Conference Center

Notes:   Lunch included

Do you have ideas for improving your own job or the work flow in your department? Do you see ways you could get things done more effectively? Do you have ideas for how to increase satisfaction in your workplace?

In traditional models of leadership, these types of changes came down from the top. In today’s workplace, leadership can and should come from all levels of the organization. Everyone possesses the capability to develop leadership behaviors. In this class, participants learn how they can act as leaders in their everyday work life, identifying opportunities for change as well as the steps needed to implement those changes.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• identify characteristics of leadership
• describe the characteristics of leadership they already possess
•  identify leadership opportunities in their workplace
• set clear goals and analyze possibilities for change
  

This course is not intended to help people manage others; instead, the focus is on how participants can become leaders by making change in their own workplace.