Leadership & Supervisory
Empower yourself with essential leadership and supervisory skills through our targeted training programs. From mastering effective communication and conflict resolution to building high-performing teams and enhancing time management, these courses are designed to help professionals at all levels excel. Whether you're a new leader or looking to refine your expertise, our flexible options offer practical tools and strategies to lead with confidence and impact.
Sample Courses
Below is a sample listing of the types of courses we can provide for area manufacturers. The content of most courses can be modified to meet the specific needs of your company. Additionally, unless tied to a certification or credentialing agency, the duration of most courses can be adjusted to meet your company’s needs and/or schedule.
This course deals with changing ineffective behaviors to effective when working with others in the organization.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
This Career Decisions Planning Workshop is designed to provide information, stimulate discussion, and assist in identifying career goals and objectives especially for front line and operators. Participants will write a career interest statement and identify the next steps for building an action plan. Participants will access their skills, talents, capabilities, interests, values, and needs. They will consider company-wide possibilities and review strategies for negotiating their optimal fit. There will be an opportunity to work on their resumes and prepare for interviews.
Course Hours:
- 2 hours
- 0.2 credits
Focuses on how to better coach employees to higher performance, relationship building and setting goals.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
This course provides a foundation for enhancing leadership communications with topics including discussion of personal and practical needs, esteem enhancement, listening and responding with empathy, encouraging others, building trust, etc. Upon completion, trainees should be able to recognize the needs of others, communicate and interact more effectively, and provide supportive feedback.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Provides a foundation for enhancing leadership communication.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Provides supervisors with the necessary information and tools needed to investigate complaints raised by employees.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Provides a foundation for effectively working through conflict issues in the workplace.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Focuses on how to develop skills for communicating when the stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
Focuses on the importance of delegation in team-based environments.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
This workshop focuses on helping participants have those everyday tough conversations.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Utilizes a pre-assessment of the individual leader’s management style; measurements of preferences and tendencies.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Focuses on how to build a completely structured On-the-Job training program.
Course Hours:
- 16 hours
- 1.6 credits
The Five Behaviors® Personal Development is the result of a partnership between Wiley and best-selling author Patrick Lencioni. This solution teaches individuals to become better teammates by integrating the model from Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, at the organizational level.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Focuses on the importance of working together as a team.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Foundation course for teaching the skills employees need to work well with others, emphasizes effective interaction practices.
Course Hours:
- 2.5 hours
- 0.25 credits
Prepares supervisors and other leadership to conduct effective interviews.
Course Hours:
- 3 hours
- 0.3 credits
A combination of skills related to effective leadership in the manufacturing environment.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Focuses on how to become better leaders, sometimes during adversity and conflicting priorities.
OR condensed version: Leadership and Influence
Course Hours:
- 16 hours
- 1.6 credits
Refers to the elements needed to create and deliver a clear and effective oral presentation.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
Trainees will learn how to define, plan, execute, and close out a project using the basic techniques of project management.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
The Role of the Leader is the introductory session for the program. It sets the stage for understanding the important role leaders play in the success of the organization and the qualities, skills, and traits required of highly effective leaders. They complete a self-assessment to identify their current leader skill level, and experience the impact that poor leadership has on the effectiveness of the team.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Prepares leaders to set clear and attainable goals, provide effective leadership, and give appropriate feedback.
Course Hours:
- 8 or 16 hours
- 0.8/1.6 credits
This interactive session allows participants to experience teamwork through various activities requiring effective communication, dialogue, and problem-solving skills. Leaders will assess their team’s current strengths and weaknesses and then learn a model for improving performance based on six key elements for developing effective teams.
Course Hours:
- 4 hours
- 0.4 credits
Focuses on training how not to procrastinate.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
Trainees will gain a practical how-to-overview of the entire training function.
Course Hours:
- 8 hours
- 0.8 credits
Designed to give opportunities to gain experience, critical work-related interpersonal skills and insights.
Course Hours:
- 8 or 24 hours
- 0.8 /2.4 credits