The objective of the Supervisor and Leadership Series is to help low-income worker groups and grassroots organizations grow by developing the capacity to continually improve and replicate the skills of staff leaders. Learning to use these processes helps both new and experienced leaders become better at motivating staff, improving staff capabilities and ensuring accountability. The trainings provide participants with an opportunity to meet others and share experiences and ideas. Through this series participants gain confidence as they begin to see their roles as leaders in the organization, not just supervisors.

We interview each participant before the training to assess potential or actual challenges they are currently experiencing and areas they need to work on. Our workshops are tailored to address the dilemmas participants are facing.

The Supervisor and Leadership series currently includes two parts:
Part 1 provides training for supervisors: how to conduct a one-on-one meeting, how to conduct a team meeting, and how to manage conflict between staff
Part 2 provides training for both supervisors and leaders of an organization: how to evaluate a program, structure, or activity and how to conduct a planning meeting.

One-on-one training:
-Provides hands-on practice conducting one-on-one meetings and giving corrective feedback
-Teaches how to develop individual work plans to ensure accountability
-Examines supervisor’s role and expectations within this role
-Helps supervisors evaluate a person’s role and growth within the organization
-Helps ensure better management of people’s time
-Gives information on how to nurture and develop staff and new leaders
-Teaches about the legal responsibilities of a supervisor

Team meeting training:
-Teaches supervisors to develop the team’s ability to brainstorm to solve problems
--Helps supervisors control the length of meetings and still get the important work done
Ensures that staff coordinates work with each other (and supervisors) while fulfilling their own individual responsibilities
-Helps supervisors continuously progress/improve the work of the team
-Ensures reciprocal accountability through the use of measurable standards

Conflict management training:
-Teaches supervisors how to manage conflicts between staff in a way that protects the whole organization’s time and moral and keeps the team focused on the priority work

Evaluation training:
-Teaches a step by step consensus process to evaluate and improve an activity or program

Proactive Planning meeting training:
-Teaches a step by step consensus process to develop long-term plans of an organization in a focused way which anticipates and confronts obstacles that could prevent the organization from reaching its objective