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Understanding and Applying Work Styles as a Supervisor
Course # 476
Advertising Description:
Working with people has always been a front-line supervisor’s key responsibility. Recent trends indicate this job has grown harder, as supervisors are encouraged to increase productivity through influence rather than authority. How can this course help? By gaining a greater understanding of yourself and those you work with through the People-Styles Behavioral Inventory. Within the framework of your style, learn practical strategies for relating effectively with others, thereby increasing engagement and productivity of your workgroup.
Key Topics:
- Behavior-based style assessment: overview and considerations.
- Recognizing, appreciating, and relating to the four types of style-based behavioral patterns: Analytical, Driver, Amiable, and Expressive.
- Styles under stress: back-up behaviors, trigger points, guidelines for difficult situations.
- Flexing to each style in order to effectively relate to, and influence, others.
Objectives:
- To provide a framework for enhancing understanding of one's own working style and how it influences both an individual's success and stress.
- To understand the value and method of using a behavioral model in one’s role as supervisor to enhance delegation, feedback, change management, and recognition efforts.
- To learn how to apply style-flexing methods to influence others and support optimal working relationships.
Participants: (audience course is designed for):
This course is featured in the Front-Line Supervisory Series (FLSS) which is tailored to meet the needs of UI front-line supervisors (i.e. those whom provide functional supervision, without budgetary or strategic planning responsibilities).