Supervising Your Team

When you supervise a team, you assign tasks, and you monitor and control the execution closely. While employees are responsible for completing the tasks, the supervisor is accountable for maintaining safety and upholding standards. A leadership approach works well when the team has the skills and knowledge to complete job tasks without much guidance.

When supervising a team, daily operations include scheduling resources to get work done. Because you focus on short-term goals, you identify opportunities to reduce costs. Leaders focus on planning, communicating, and motivating the team, but delegate specific activities to subordinates.

This module examines areas related to supervising a team and is recommended for anyone new to supervision. 

1. Define a team.
2. Discuss the tools for people development.
3. Explain the performance feedback process.
4. Support diversity on a team.
5. Establish a code of conduct for your team.
6. Discuss techniques to improve meeting effectiveness.
7. Develop an agenda for team meetings.
8. Establish an action plan for follow-up items.
9. Encourage participation from team members.
10. Effectively run a team meeting.
11. Describe the nature of conflict in teams.
12. Define types of conflict and describe how each manifest in a team.
13. Identify reasons why team members struggle with conflict.
14. Describe how a team leader can manage conflict within the team.
15. Implement intervention in a group conflict situation.
16. Identify team leadership requirements.
17. Describe the team roles.
18. Describe the team environment and the types of teams.
19. Organize and lead your team successfully.

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 - Teach to the values and attributes of leadership, incorporate in a human resource management program, incorporate in a personnel management program, and teach about successful team performance in organizations.

Business, Industry, Nonprofits, & Agencies - Make the transition to supervisor, new manager orientation to leadership and business operations, develop principles for leading a successful team, understand unit of command and span of management, and apply critical leadership skills to manage team conflicts.