FASTART: Supervisor – New Manager Bootcamp

Motivated, responsible, and productive employees are crucial to the success of a company or organization. Learn how to apply your own managerial style to make your employees – and your company – the best they can be.

Learn in three days what it takes managers a lifetime to develop-the skills of motivating your employees, building trust in working relationships, and the essentials of effective communication. Employees can make or break a company, and they can make or break a supervisor. The good news is that supervisory and managerial skills can be learned. This is a highly interactive workshop including case studies, skill-building practice exercises, project team work, and personal coaching and consultations with instructors.

Who Should Attend:
+ Middle and executive managers
+ Supervisors
+ Business owners
+ Newly promoted managers transitioning from individual contributor to leadership role.

What your will learn:
+ How to assess your managerial style so that you can build on your strengths and improve the areas where you are not as strong.
+ How to motivate and build trust with your employees so that you can count on them taking responsibility for their work.
+ How to communicate to improve working relations with others.
+ How to read your employees sot that you can quickly assess areas to focus on for development, and improve motivation and performance.
+ How to use your authority in a way that encourages cooperation rather than resentment.
+ How to develop an action plan for applying program insights for professional development on-the-job.

When you leave, you will know:
+ How to empower your employees to take pride in their contribution to your company, its vision, and mission.
+ How to differentiate the essential components of the supervisory role – the leadership component and the management component – which enable corporate leaders to succeed in the face of competition and continuous change.
+ How to apply the key components of performance management.
+ How to become a role model for leadership competencies at your company.

The Program
+ Overview
- Program structure

+ Leadership defined
- Understanding and influencing people
- Leadership styles and behaviors
- Assessing your leadership skills

+ Understanding your staff
- Making the transition to leadership
- Assessing staff styles
- Improving your communication effectiveness

+ Developing employees
- The development cycle
- Review
- Personal development planning

Program Executive Summary

Need:
Reducing the cycle time for managers with direct reports who have limited supervisory experience to learn and master the fundamentals of a leadership role.

Idea:
Deliver an interactive, intensive learning opportunity for managers with limited supervisory experience. Designed to provide a jumpstart for managers, this opportunity would combine classroom learning with other activities and would ideally be offered for leaders within the first four months after they assume their new role.

Benefits:

• Reduces transition time spent learning and mastering the fundamentals of the leadership role
• Accelerates team productivity through more immediate focus on team motivation, coaching
• Accelerates organizational effectiveness by more quickly engaging leaders in business decisions, e.g., more rapid launch of new products
• Supports continued culture change by emphasizing commitment to the success factor - development of others

Target Audience:

• Newly-promoted managers transitioning from individual contributor to leadership role.
• Leaders new to the company but with less than 2 years of supervisory experience.

Deliverables:

• Intensive crash course focusing on supervisory skills and knowledge
• Appropriate tools and job aids to support skills development
• Measurement process

Approach:

• New Manager FASTART required course in leadership development curriculum.
• Session offered as needed to accommodate up to a suggested 20 new managers.
• Session location will vary depending on need.
• Session content will include skill development, increased knowledge and a variety of other learning methods

Measures:

• Pre/post survey of leadership practices customized to course content
• Post-Questionnaire to participants soliciting feedback and anecdotal data re: course impact

FOUR FASTART PRODUCTS AVAILABLE:

(1) FASTART: An in-depth seminar for new managers – This workbook for participants in the seminar is supplemented by additional hand-out materials. It is used by each participant enrolled in the FASTART program. The workbook can be customized to fit the unique values, culture, and competencies of a specific organization. An executive summary of the program is included on a separate page. The seminar is typically presented in a three or four-day format. It is strongly recommended that the seminar also include “The Leader/Manager Practices Survey” (LPS) – see below.

(2) FASTART: A leader’s guidebook – This comprehensive leader’s guidebook provides an in-depth, step-by-step approach to presenting the FASTART seminar. It is included with participation in the FASTART: A train-the-trainer workshop. A full set of over-head masters are provided at an extra charge.

(3) FASTART: A train-the-trainer workshop. This workshop provides trainers licensing and personalized coaching in how to present the FASTART seminar.

(4) “The Leader/Manager Practices Survey” (LPS) - a 360 Degree assessment tool completed by each participant, their supervisor, and eight other people which provides leader/managers participating in the FASTART program confidential detailed feedback report on their current and desired leader/manager behaviors. The can be used independently of the program as well as be customized to fit the unique culture and behaviors specific to an organization. The survey benchmarks participants prior to the program and can re-administered 4-6 months after the program to foster on-the-job implementation of personal development plans.