Leadership Skills for Maintenance Supervisors and Managers


Book Description

Supervision is a leveraged activity. When we develop the supervisor's skills, we enhance the productivity of the whole workgroup. This book provides valuable skill training for supervisors, team leaders, and managers. It offers techniques to improve reliability that can be accomplished at the supervisor level. It teaches both the science and the art of the supervision of maintenance workers, discusses managing meetings and time, the elements of technical issues, and presents management and people skills, offering maximum productivity and high-quality provision of services and at the same time, improving morale throughout the workforce. This book is suitable for all types of maintenance for organizations with supervisors and managers from plant operations, storeroom, construction, and related areas including industrial organizations, construction companies, mines, fleets, building maintenance, janitorial maintenance contractors, and vocational tech schools teaching maintenance short courses.




Supervisory Leadership


Book Description

Supervisory Leadership emphasizes leadership practices and covers the concepts, principles, and skills needed to be a successful supervisor. This new, well-researched and comprehensive text describes the supervisor's work with teachers as moving from a deficit model (helping) to a collegial, cooperative, mentoring approach. It also provides helpful connections that describe and support the role of supervisors in school culture. The authors provide a view of contemporary supervisory practice with particular attention given to the importance of past practices, the workplace and culture, leadership qualities, communication, models and supervision processes, and the process of change and decision-making. Written in a language that is easily understood, Supervisory Leadership provides an interactive, realistic and meaningful learning experience that offers continuous opportunities for students to reflect upon their own supervisory leadership development.




Successful Supervision and Leadership


Book Description

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of supervisors and leaders provide coaching, supervision and leadership to staff every day of the year, yet the majority of supervisors have never attended formal training about how to be an effective supervisor and leader. The majority of supervisors do not refresh their skills, knowledge and capabilities to remain up to date or evaluate their supervisory practice regularly. Supervision is fundamental to ensure that employees meet the requirements of their role, feel supported and valued, and engage in ongoing growth and development. When supervision is effective, it reduces stress, fatigue and burnout. Supervision ensures that employees reflect on their work to maintain high performance and it supports well-being as a professional. This latest book is an essential guide for experienced supervisors and leaders. It is a comprehensive book demonstrating how to provide effective supervision and leadership in the modern workplace. It assists leaders to understand the industrial and ethical context in which supervision is provided, how to evaluate the effectiveness of supervision, and shows supervisors and leaders the specific capabilities that are necessary to be a quality leader and supervisor. This book is a must-read for any supervisor or leader who wants to provide effective supervision and leadership. Each chapter provides valuable information and the latest research on supervision with reflective questions to guide supervisors in their thinking and learning about supervision.




Umiker's Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor


Book Description

Todays healthcare supervisors are continuously faced with smaller budgets, fewer workers, greater responsibilities and time pressure. The all new Fifth Edition of Umikers Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor continues to provide valuable information for future health care managers and supervisors who must address these challenges daily. Written primarily for those who have little to no management training, Umikers offers practical suggestions for improving effectiveness both as a supervisor and as an organization. Ideal for students in junior undergraduate, community, and career college programs, author Charles McConnell maintains Bill Umikers clear, jargon-free writing style.




Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Managers and Leaders


Book Description

The only nonprofit orientation to coaching skills available, Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders will provide nonprofit managers with an understanding of why and how to coach, how to initiate coaching in specific situations, how to make coaching really work, and how to refine coaching for long-term success. Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders offers practical steps for coaching leaders to greatness and complements the academic and theoretical work in nonprofit leadership theory. The book can be used by the coaching novice as a thorough topical overview or by those more experienced with coaching as a quick reference or refresher. Based on the Inquiry Based Coaching? approach, Coaching Skills will strengthen and expand the reader?s ability to drive organization mission, while retaining the intrinsic values of the nonprofit culture and working towards outcomes that create a culture of discipline and accountability and empower others to be even more responsible, accountable, and self-motivated. This book uses accessible language, examples, case studies, key questions, and exercises to help: Promote better relationships Know when to delegate, direct and coach. Balance directive and supportive styles of leadership for productive partnerships Overcome fears and deal head-on with difficult situations and conflict. Use coaching for performance improvement and on-the-job development. Support independent thinking and personal reflection Gain commitment and accountability from others and build teams




Effective Leadership, Management and Supervision in Health and Social Care


Book Description

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the areas of leadership, management and supervision for line managers, supervisors and senior practitioners Taking a problem-solving approach, the book explores different aspects of leadership and management including personal effectiveness, managing and leading supervision, managing training and development, managing resources and leading and developing a team. A precise review of each project area is linked to a set of audit tools that a manager can mobilise in order to review team and personal effectiveness and develop practice.




A Supervisor's Guide to Safety Leadership


Book Description

A safe work place takes a coordinated effort on the part of all employees. Senior leaders establish safety-oriented vision and values, middle managers put into effect safety management systems, procedures, and accountability, and frontline employees complete the work as safely as possible. Frontline supervisors have perhaps the most crucial role¿they are the "linchpins" of safety. This book gives supervisors practical tools to improve their safety management and safety leadership.




Supervisor Manager Leader; The Basics of Being a Boss


Book Description

After 33 years in the fire service, with 20 of those being responsible for others, Mike Kraus felt the obligation to pass the lessons he learned on to those who would follow in his footsteps. His motivation comes from the fact that the vast majority of what he learned about supervision, management, and leadership, was though his own experience, research, or observations - both good and bad - of others. Mike shares what he had to learn from the school of hard knocks. If he didn’t learn it, experience it, or practice it himself, he doesn’t share it. His purpose for writing this book is to give new and future bosses the foundation they need to be successful in their jobs, and to give present bosses the information they need to become more effective. His sincere desire is to inspire readers to be the best Supervisor, Manager, and Leader they can be, resulting in their organizations becoming more productive and successful.




Think Again


Book Description

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need. Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.




Effective Supervision


Book Description

Containing ten years of experience, this complete "seminar in a book" includes success tips for supervisors, and "hands-on, real-world" activities that teach the many and varied skills necessary for success in today's workplace. It develops individuals who know not only about supervision, but who know how to supervise. Chapter topics cover leadership, facilitating change, communication, ethics, motivation, decision making and problem solving, performance appraisal, employee complaints, workplace violence, legal issues, training, health and safety, staffing, and team building and teamwork. For supervisors, team leaders, and work coaches--for on-the-job training, business and industry seminars, and distance learning.