Supervisory Skills

To keep the troops motivated and focused there are certain skills you will need to employ on a regular basis. In Elevate’s Supervisory Skills seminars, we’ll show you how to be forward-thinking and dynamic in your approach to supervision, gain the trust and loyalty of your employees, and lead a stress-free work life.

Supervisory Skills Courses Offered

Transitioning from Staff to Supervisor

Being promoted into a position of leadership is a challenging transition. You now have to juggle being the boss and maintaining positive relationships with your employees. Not only do you get a whole new set of responsibilities, but you also have many new skills to learn. Elevate’s Transitioning from Staff to Supervisor program will teach participants how to become a confident leader and manage a team to get desired results. Participants will learn new skills and techniques to ease their transition from day one. They will learn how to manage their new staff, ease conflict, delegate, problem solve, ease into managerial duties, and more.

Creativity & Innovation Through Improv

There are two main goals for this workshop. The first is to foster active listening and smoother communication between colleagues across environments. The second is to experientially learn creative and innovative techniques for succeeding both as a leader and as a team member in dynamic and spontaneously changing circumstances. This is an interactive, hands-on workshop based on adult learning principles and designed to be thought-provoking, engaging, and fun.

Tools to ENGAGE and Motivate Your Team – WBENC

The future of work will be to provide a flexible work environment, and a sense of purpose and belonging in terms of place, time, job description, and career paths. This class will give participants techniques and strategies to improve communication with their team and make personal aspiration a routine part of manager conversations. Genuinely purposeful organizations embed solidarity right into management practices that translate to a sense of belonging and security for employees.

Using Elevate’s 6-step ENGAGE Model, Managers and Supervisors will learn the steps to lead a diverse team, keep everyone on track, and promote positive interaction with team members, peers, and upper management.

Tools to ENGAGE Your Team

The future of work will be to provide a flexible work environment, and a sense of purpose and belonging in terms of place, time, job description, and career paths. This class will give participants techniques and strategies to improve communication with their team and make personal aspiration a routine part of manager conversations. Genuinely purposeful organizations embed solidarity right into management practices that translate to a sense of belonging and security for employees. Using Elevate’s 6 step ENGAGE Model, Managers and Supervisors will learn the steps to lead a diverse team, keep everyone on track, and promote positive interaction with team members, peers, and upper management.

Leading Effective Teams

Using assessment results Elevate’s Leading Effective Teams training will teach participants how to grow employees into highly driven individuals dedicated to getting results. Participants will learn how to foster cooperation within their teams with effective decision-making tools that will inspire and motivate your team for success. Woven throughout the program are essential presentation and public speaking skills for effective leadership.

Accountable Leadership

Whether you are a seasoned leader or have been promoted into a position of leadership you have to juggle being the boss and maintain a positive relationship with your employees. Elevate’s Accountable Leadership program will help participants to become a confident leader and manage a team to get desired results, ease conflict, delegate, problem solve, and communicate in a way that keeps everyone accountable.

Developing your Employees

Employee development requires producing an effective, well-incentivized team. This requires the ability to inspire high-quality work, build an environment of trust and mutual respect, identify areas for improvement, and develop critical skills. Employee development can take on many dimensions, but central to every approach is the concept of employee ownership and development plans for continued improvement.

Team Building & Coaching

In today’s business world the occasional “good job” to your employees just doesn’t cut it anymore. Research has shown that progressive managers who employ coaching techniques to motivate their employees not only boost productivity, but also overall workforce happiness. We’ll show you all the tips and tricks in our arsenal so you can move forward with these incredible new tactics to inspire your employees for great things.

Coaching & Mentoring C-Level

Elevateʼs Coaching & Mentoring C-Level training will provide participants with the information to become more decisive, capitalize on their team-building skills, and to be a mentor to their teams.

Mentor Match I & II—Mentor & Protégé

The responsibility for a good mentor/protégé relationship is both with the mentor and the protégé. Mentoring is a power-free, mutually beneficial learning situation where the mentor provides advice, shares knowledge and experiences, and teaches using a low pressure, self-discover approach. By teaching using an adult-learning model instead of a teacher-to-student model, mentors are able to willingly question their own methods for self-discovery and freely share their own experience and skills with their protégé. Strong mentors breed strong protégés to carry on the tradition of mentorship to others. A strong formal mentoring program strives for consistency, compatibility, support, and accountability. The training course for protégés ensures that any mentorship program is successful and rewarding by teaching the protégé what to look for in a mentor, build a strong relationship, and put the mentor’s knowledge to work. As skilled, educated, and motivated as you are, learning from someone who knows the ins and outs of your organization can be a powerful business asset. You have to be willing to work hard and do your part. This training will help you create and maintain a mutually rewarding mentor/mentee relationship.

Leading from the Middle

Leading from the Middle is a leadership development program focused on equipping middle leaders with skills and strategies to meet the demands from above while providing resources to and meeting the needs of those below. Working hard and helping others has gotten you this far in your career, but now, new skills are required to keep you advancing. This 3-day program will provide participants with tools and strategies to succeed as a manager in the middle, focusing on personal accountability, resiliency, communication, influence, flexibility & self-awareness.

Effective Mentorship

Effective mentorship requires complex skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered, that will generate measurable benefits for both, the mentees and the mentors. Evidence shows that mentors who exhibit core behaviors such as aligning expectations, building rapport, maintaining open communication, and facilitating mentee agency, have mentees who favorably rate the quality of their relationships. Effective mentorship behaviors also include addressing diversity factors and being mindful of equity in the mentoring relationship. Elevate’s 3-part Effective Mentorship symposium harnesses the best of relationship science to ensure that mentors have the tools to develop strong relationships and provides mentees the strategies and techniques to take responsibility for cultivating an effective mentoring relationship for everyone.

Creative Leadership for Managers

Leaders in any organization play many different roles and these days it’s not enough to simply “manage.” Instead, you have to inspire creativity and bring about positive change to keep your workforce engaged and motivated. Sound difficult? It doesn’t have to be with our breakthrough new seminar. In a complex and ever-changing work environment, effective leaders need to fulfill their roles in ways that provide the right guidance to those they lead. The key to effective leadership is finding the right balance. That requires both managers and their teams to step out of their comfort zones and adapt to what the organization needs to accomplish its goals. This training program will give managers an understanding of their leadership styles and the five roles they play. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to creatively manager you employees in new, exciting directions.

Leading When Not in Charge

John Maxwell sums up his definition of leadership as “leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” Some people are leaders because they are tasked to be leaders. But, you don’t have to be in a position of leadership to be a leader. Leadership is a learned technique. In this program, you will learn your purpose and your personal power. You will learn to motivate, persuade, inspire, and influence others to realize their potential. Make a difference no matter what the position you are in by putting the leadership skills of the great leaders into practice.

Creativity & Innovation

Learn how to use creativity to move forward. Stop talking about innovation and start adding value today—in your job and agency. You will learn to look at things through the eyes of an innovator! Elevate’s Creativity & Innovation seminar, teaches you how to discover and create something new and different to tackle the challenges coming your way.

Team Building: Appreciating the Styles of the Team

The success of a team is only as good as the team itself, and it is highly dependent on how well the team operates. How are their problem-solving skills? Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best? Do they work well together? While there are many ways to create and foster a collaborative workplace, the most successful work environments typically have some important features in common. Elevate’s Team Building: Appreciating the Styles of the Team seminar is a practical look at current collaborative team practices that take the Team Player Style of each member into consideration.

Series Offered

Leadership Development Program & Mentor Enhancement

Elevate believes crafting an effective leadership culture across a diverse organization is dependent on interlocking learning modules that build upon the individual, group, and organizational goals. Elevate offers a suite of solutions that can be customized to meet your organization’s specific needs, enhance and supplement existing or new capabilities, and approach adult education in innovative ways that promote engagement, accountability, and the application of practical knowledge in a variety of situations. As part of our training development, Elevate will seek to instill a culture of continuous learning across your organization as a whole. Further training and curriculum refinements will be continuous, and feedback-based.

The year-long Leadership Development Program will focus on how leaders of all levels can aspire to maximize effectiveness with personal and group dynamics, specifically in two areas:

1) Utilizing the latest professional best leadership practices within your industry, and;

2) Developing leaders that are able to grow overall staff performance within their specific day-to-day responsibilities using research-based theory and practical knowledge gained through anecdotal evidence, roleplaying, gamification, and further experiential learning.

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