These supervisory skills courses are brought to your location by Academy Instructors or taught to your supervisory team in live online training sessions. Let our experienced trainers develop your supervisory team.
This comprehensive series equips both new and seasoned supervisors with the vital tools and empowering mindset essential for cultivating and leading high-performing teams. Participants will gain practical techniques applicable to daily team management, with a significant focus on key areas such as effective coaching, impactful mentoring, strategic goal setting, constructive performance management, fostering seamless collaboration, and leveraging the principles of strengths-based supervision.
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To further support supervisory growth, explore our Supervisor Coaching and Mentoring Workbooks.
Explore our supervisory skill classes
Leading High-Performing Teams
Empower your supervisors to build and lead high-performing teams. This class provides the tools and techniques to supervisors that are needed to foster clear communication, establish goals, and monitor performance effectively.
Leading with Purpose
Ignite team passion and drive by connecting to a shared purpose. This curriculum guides supervisors through a collaborative process to define team mission, align goals, and create buy-in among team members.
A Strengths-Oriented Approach to Leadership
Unlock the potential of your team by focusing on individual strengths. This training equips supervisors with the skills to cultivate positive, mentoring relationships and leverage employee strengths for enhanced performance and job satisfaction.
Leading with Purpose
Equip your supervisors to address performance issues proactively and effectively. This curriculum provides practical methods for providing feedback, setting expectations, and managing challenging employee behaviors.
Effective Discipline Strategies for Supervisors
Ensure fair and consistent disciplinary action with this comprehensive training. This curriculum guides supervisors in developing a structured process for corrective action, including progressive discipline and conducting disciplinary conversations.
Mastering the Performance Review: A Continuous Feedback Model
Transform performance reviews from dreaded events to valuable opportunities for growth. This class focuses on building a continuous feedback model, incorporating coaching, self-evaluation, and goal setting for ongoing performance improvement.
Preventing and Resolving Workplace Conflict
Create a harmonious and productive work environment by effectively managing conflict. This class equips supervisors with the skills to foster a healthy team culture, prevent escalated conflict, and intervene to mediate in active disputes to reach reconciliation and create a plan to move forward.
The Effective Supervisor: Overcoming Common Supervisory Pitfalls
Help your supervisors identify and overcome common leadership challenges. This class addresses supervisory issues like communicating unclear expectations, micromanagement, and neglecting employee development, providing strategies for more effective leadership.
Leading with Clarity: Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking for Supervisors
Enhance supervisory decision-making ability with this focused training. This class develops essential problem-solving and critical thinking skills, including information gathering, insightful questioning, and effective communication.
Supervisor Boot Camp: Essential Skills for New and Experienced Supervisors
Provide a comprehensive foundation for supervisory success. This class covers essential leadership skills, including self-awareness, relationship building, communication, and goal setting, valuable for both new and experienced supervisors.
Building a Winning Team: Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding
Attract and retain top talent in the developmental disabilities services field. This class addresses the unique challenges of hiring direct support professionals, focusing on effective recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention strategies.
The Organized Supervisor: Strategies for Effective Time and Task Management
Maximize productivity and efficiency with this practical training. This class equips supervisors with essential organizational skills to effectively manage their own work and oversee the work of others.
The Ethical Supervisor: Navigating Challenges and Making Sound Decisions
Develop ethical leadership in the disability services sector. This curriculum guides supervisors in exploring a Supervisor Code of Ethics, applying ethical principles to real-life scenarios, and strengthening their ethical decision-making.
Coaching And Mentoring Workbooks
Empower Your Entire Team with Our Two-Tiered Coaching and Mentoring Workbooks
Looking for a way to elevate the skills and confidence of your Frontline Employee and your frontline supervisors? Our series of coaching and mentoring workbooks provides a comprehensive solution for fostering a culture of growth and development throughout your organization.
The workbooks are structured for one-on-one or small group coaching sessions, encouraging an interactive learning experience that promotes employee growth and strengthens the supervisor-employee relationship.
How It Works:
Our bound workbooks provide a structured framework for ongoing coaching and mentoring conversations. Each topic area includes separate workbooks for each participant (coach and mentee) designed for collaborative learning during mentor meetings.
Workbook Features:
- Clear Expectations: Define specific expectations for each role in each topic area.
- Easy-to-Follow Content: Provides ready-to-use materials for teaching essential skills.
- Engaging Activities: Reinforce learning and actively involve participants in the process.
- Thought-Provoking Prompts: Spark meaningful dialogue and encourage critical thinking through questions, answers, and scenario-based discussions.
We offer two distinct levels of workbooks:
- Level 1: Supervisory Coach with the Frontline Employee: Designed to guide frontline supervisors in coaching and mentoring their DSP team members.
- Level 2: Program Director/DOO with Frontline Supervisor: Equips senior supervisors, program directors, or directors of operations to coach and mentor frontline supervisors, ensuring consistent leadership and support.
Contact us today
Contact us by telephone at 513.237.2449, by email, or click the button below to visit our contact form to discuss how this partnership could benefit you. We are located in Cincinnati, Ohio and provide support to agencies all throughout Ohio.