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Leadership Academy

Session 1

PBS content – Changing Role of the Supervisor

Topics include:

  • Characteristics of great supervisors and managers
  • Difference between a leader and a supervisor/manager
  • Changing workforce demographics
  • Environmental and economic changes
  • How values of today’s work force impact supervisors, managers
  • Skills needed by today’s supervisors and managers
  • Analyzing the different forms of supervisory power

MCC content:

  • Employee Handbook – role in enforcing various policies
  • Hiring process

Session 2

PBS content – Relationship Strategies

Topics include:

  • Understanding characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of different behavioral styles
  • Utilizing techniques to effectively deal with different types of people
  • Adapting your communication style
  • Building relationships on the foundation of trust, credibility and honesty
  • Identifying stages of conflict in relationships

MCC content:

  • Orienting/Training new employees

Session 3

PBS content – Communicating Effectively

Topics include:

  • Identifying variety of ways in which we communicate
  • Power of good listening skills
  • Understanding effective questioning and summarizing techniques
  • Roadblocks to effective listening
  • Effective attending techniques to enhance the listening process
  • Art of providing effective feedback
  • Role of nonverbal communication in the communication process
  • Communicating in a way that makes others feel they are valued
  • Using “I” messages so that listeners do not become defensive
  • Skills to open up communication

MCC content:

  • Informal conflict resolution procedure & formal grievance process

Session 4

Employment Law

Topics include:

  • Harassment
  • Discrimination
  • Managing diversity
  • Ethics
  • Workers Compensation
  • Reasonable accommodation (Carol Rodriguez
    and Loretta B)
  • Performance review process at MCC – forms, deadlines
  • Compensation system

Session 5

PBS content – Successful Time Management and Delegation

Topics include:

  • Benefits of good time management
  • Balancing your life
  • Setting goals and developing a plan to achieve them
  • Controlling your time before it controls you
  • Dealing with time robbers and wasters
  • Making a daily “to do” list that really works
  • Preventing crisis management
  • When to get the important things done – charting your energy cycle
  • Moving from doer to delegator
  • Creating a time management Action Plan

MCC content:

  • Managing effective meetings

Session 6

PBS Content – Providing Valuable Performance Feedback plus Coaching and Counseling

Topics include:

  • Assess their effectiveness as an evaluator
  • Understand the objectives of performance evaluation
  • Identify the five stages of the performance review cycle
  • Set and measure objective standards for performance
  • Establish the scale used to rate performance
  • Involve employees in the review process
  • Observe and document performance
  • Prepare for performance review interviews
  • Conduct performance review interviews
  • Provide clear and effective feedback
  • Develop employee performance improvement plans
 
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