What Great Supervisors Know by Greg Schinkel
About this Book
Being a supervisor is a challenge.Caught in the middle between management and employees, supervisors are accountable for the results they generate and how they treat their employees.
While some supervisors struggle in their role, others are calm and confident.
This book is a collection of some of the best leadership ideas and practices we have taught and observed in supervisors during more than 20 years of providing supervisor and leadership training.The best practices apply to anyone in a leadership role.
What's in the Book?
Your supervisors will appreciate having this information at their fingertips:
- From doer to leader
- Constructive thinking and behavior
- Balancing task and people
- Motivating employees
- Having a vision for the workgroup
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Your role in the leadership team
- Confronting and correcting performance
- Avoiding silos
- Dealing with prima donnas
- Inter-shift handoff
- Dealing with a difficult employee
- Conducting a shift start meeting
- Negative attitudes
- Keeping good documentation
- Managing conflict
- Walking the department
- Leading by example—safety
- Effective communication
- Leading by example—attendance
- Avoiding sarcasm
- Leading by example—quality
- Being a good listener
- Leading by example—teamwork
- Explaining “why”
- Continuous improvement
- Email communication
- Problem solving
- Friendship and leadership
- Leading change
- Being approachable
- Working with maintenance
- Focusing on positives
- Training employees
- Being accountable
- Delegation
- Challenging employees to
think for themselves
About the Author
Greg Schinkel is the president of Unique Training and Development Inc. and has impacted more than 500,000 people through his writing, broadcasting, speaking, training and coaching. He co-authored the best seller, Employees Not Doing What You Expect, which has been published on three continents. His second best seller is Awakening the Workplace. His third book, a collaboration with his father, Irwin Schinkel, is Fusion or Fizzle: How Leaders Leverage Training to Ignite Results.
Greg and his team specialize in training supervisors, team leaders, lead hands and managers in how to use constructive leadership practices to generate best-ever operating results.
With the perfect blend of style and substance, Greg is a top-rated keynote speaker and trainer. As a leadership coach, Greg specializes in turning abrasive managers into pussycats.
Greg is in the top 10% of all speakers and trainers as a professional member of the Global Speakers Federation and has served as chapter President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
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What Great Supervisors Know by Greg Schinkel
Supervisors are caught in the middle between management and employees. This pocket-sized book has a collection of the best tips for being a successful supervisor. The book is available for free as an e-book or may be purchased in hard copy.
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