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Unleashing High-Performing Leadership: A Deep Dive into What Sets the Best Teams Apart

When asked why people stay, join, or leave companies, the topic of culture inevitably comes up.

High-Performing Leadership: What the Best Teams Have and Do

Live on: January 17, 2024

Learn how to become a high-performing leader and in turn, increase team performance by implementing effective strategies and tactics.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

Learning how to have meaningful, ongoing career development conversations is crucial to employees' growth, engagement, and satisfaction.

The Middle Matters: Five Habits of High-Performing Middle Managers

In today's fast-paced business world, middle managers play a critical role in ensuring that organizations run smoothly and effectively. In this webinar, we will explore five key habits that high-performing middle managers cultivate to excel in their role and drive success for their organization.

The webinar will review pitfalls to avoid providing this important feedback to employees. Avoiding these traps can help make this process to be more meaningful to employees and not just a mandatory process that everyone is required to go through.

How to Help Executives Operate at a Higher Level (Part 2)

The Shift that Executives Need to Make, but Only 8% Actually Make Written by: Ryan Gottfredson There is a novel and transformational approach to developing executives and leaders that is reaching the business world from the field of developmental psychology.

How to Help Executives Operate at a Higher Level (Part 1)

The Most Common Struggles of Executives & Our Only Hope of Helping Them Written by: Ryan Gottfredson I, Ryan Gottfredson, am a leadership professor at California State University, Fullerton, and I am also a leadership development consultant.

Webinar: THE BIG THREE – 3 Essential Skills Every Middle Manager Needs to Lead Up, Down and Across

This webinar is designed to re-connect, re-energize and re-ignite the core skills in you with three fundamental management skills.

Boundaries: Do you know yours?

Last year we watched a house across the street be built, and now this year another house is being built next to that one.

Getting Started with Agile

When I was invited to speak at HRDQ-U’s upcoming webinar, Building an Agile Culture, I was ecstatic.

Top Critical Skills Needed in Human Resource Management

Gartner Research Organization surveyed over 500 HR managers of major companies in 2021 and came up with the top seven priorities for HR leaders in 2022.

Building an Agile Culture

An Agile culture changes your organization by focusing on agility, customer-centricity, and efficiency. Unlock the power of an Agile mindset.

The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: Essential Skills for Leading Others with Confidence

Discover the four critical dimensions of emotional intelligence that we can develop to drive our behavior and use when leading others.

Untangling Talent and Teamwork

This HRDQ-U webinar, Untangling Talent and Teamwork, is part of our growing library of on-demand webinars. We hope you enjoy watching this content and leave us a comment!

The Most Important Skills for Supervisors

This HRDQ-U webinar, The Most Important Skills for Supervisors, is part of our growing library of on-demand webinars. We hope you enjoy watching this content and leave us a comment!

Overview

Supervisors are an organizational linchpin, the crucial link between leadership and employees. Ensure your supervisors are serving their roles effectively, managing their direct reports while also advancing leadership’s priorities. HRDQ-U’s supervisory skills training events can help you equip this level of employee for success in their role.

The Role of the Supervisor

Supervisors play a key middle management role. They need to be effective leaders and mentors for their direct reports while also serving as authentic messengers for leadership. In many ways, they set the tone for the whole organization. It’s not a role that should be taken lightly if you’re serious about creating a positive, constructive work environment.

Crucial Supervisory Skills

No matter what industry you’re in, these interpersonal and professional skills are crucial for success in a supervisor role. Make sure your workforce is prepared:

Communication Transparent communication is absolutely essential for supervisors. They need to be able to set clear expectations, communicate issues and differences, and articulate any problems or areas for improvement. Clear communication is fundamental to ensuring all employees and teams are on the same page and set up for success.
Conflict Resolution Supervisors must be equipped to manage conflict between employees and teams. Strengths here include mediation, listening, and diplomacy. Effective conflict resolution empowers learning and growth in the process and ultimately makes for a more cohesive team.
Trust Employees perform better and exhibit higher morale if they feel trusted to do their jobs well. Supervisors must place trust in employees to get the job done—otherwise it can become a micromanaging situation in which a supervisor sows doubt and resentment with their direct reports.
Time Management Supervisors must be deadline-oriented and able to manage tasks at an appropriate cadence. This involves organization, a sense of urgency and a forward-thinking mentality. Supervisors should anticipate how projects might go, correct for any foreseeable complications, and help their employees keep objectives on track.
Active Listening Nurturing successful relationships, both with leadership and with direct reports, requires active listening. Supervisors need to understand the unique needs and expectations of both parties and work to deliver on those expectations.

HRDQ-U supervisory skills training events can help to set your middle management leaders up for success.

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