Preparing for the Supervisory Challenge

Many factors are related to your success as a supervisor. The factors addressed in this module include understanding your personality type, the different leadership styles, time management, and how to deal with stress. Developing your skills and knowledge related to these areas will help you become a more effective supervisor, ready for the supervisory challenges that lie ahead.

This module is well suited for anyone new to supervision or new supervisors needing an extra level of education and training to complete the supervisory leadership transition. 

1. Identify your personality type.
2. Know the potential personality types for your team members.
3. Understand and appreciate the power of diversity in the workplace.
4. Explain directing, delegating, and participating leadership styles.
5. Describe transformational and transactional leadership approaches.
6. Discuss situational leadership and how it applies to the workplace.
7. Evaluate situations for when to use what leadership style/approach to achieve the results you want to achieve.
8. Identify the aspects of your work and life that impact your time the most.
9. Describe techniques to improve your time management skills.
10. Develop better planning, organizing, and executing strategies for improving your time management.
11. Recognize stress and its impacts on your performance effectiveness.
12. Apply stress management techniques to help you with your health and your leadership effectiveness.

The Leading Edge Learning® modules are created specifically for today’s learners who demand interaction and engagement with online learning opportunities. Sequential presentation of largely static content in page-after-page delivery is not the best delivery experience for adult learners.

This module can be used for both Higher Education and Business & Industry. For example:

Higher Education - Use as a module within a career development seminar or course, incorporate in a human resource management program, and learn about the common leadership styles and how to develop your own.

Business, Industry, Nonprofits, & Agencies - Make the transition to supervisor, as a refresher for supervisors and managers, identify the different personality types and what they mean, understand how to develop a time management action plan, and identify environmental and job stress.