Supervisors and Workplace Culture

Name: Supervisors and Workplace Culture
Author: Timothy Hornseth

Learn how to build a positive workplace culture as a supervisor.

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Course: On-Demand

(light music) These lessons will focus on building your workplace culture. We'll talk about your role in empowering your team to embrace the company's culture and goals, appraising an employee's performance, and identifying organizational boundaries and how to overcome them. You can assist in developing goals for your employees by conducting a SWOT analysis. This looks at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that surround a person or company. It can be done for a single person, but using this analysis to examine your team can also give you a more well-rounded view of your organization. Doing the analysis may give you more insights into what kinds of goals would best benefit your company and how to reach them. By using some or all of the team members in the analysis, it can yield you more support in achieving goals. The more that the team is involved with creating the goals, the more buy-in they'll have toward fulfilling them. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your team can help you shape and motivate into an efficient and productive one. It's a best practice to use rewards and other positive reinforcement tactics to change or encourage excellent production or efficiency while sparingly using punishment or negative reinforcements to stop unwanted behaviors. For example, a team meeting its goal of having zero onsite injuries for six months can positively affect a SWOT analysis. So it's a good idea to remember to reinforce the positive efforts by rewarding the team as this can create a strong and beneficial teamwork mentality. A team member, when reinforced correctly, won't want to be the one who stops the team from being rewarded. This will give them extra motivation to move in a positive direction. Another way of empowering employees is through delegation. Delegating tasks can be viewed as a reward and be used to motivate employees. They're also a cost-effective way of creating efficiencies and spurring employees to view you positively. The team will see that you're demonstrating trust in them, that you value them and think they're capable of performing the needed tasks. Delegation also helps you identify which employees may be the most worthy of being promoted, by assigning people to perform suitable tasks and seeing if they excel. However, sometimes you might find yourself in the uncomfortable position of having to reprimand one of your employees. While positive reinforcement is generally encouraged, oftentimes the rest of the team will be grateful the supervisor took action toward the low-performing teammate. A team member who isn't performing is usually known to the rest of the group. So addressing the situation can be critical for the sake of maintaining morale among the rest of the team. Make sure to reprimand the employee in a private setting and to do so in a way that helps them learn to not repeat the same behavior. If the offense is serious and that the wellbeing of yourself or another team member is endangered in any way, consult your HR department.

Intermediate Provider : Timothy Hornseth 4 Lessons · 12m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Urdu, Chinese

Course Description

Being a supervisor means that you have a good deal of power at your company. This power can be used for positive intent. In these lessons, you’ll discover how to create a culture that encourages productivity and creates a cohesive workplace. We’ll start off by taking a look at how you can empower your team members through creating goals that will benefit your company. You’ll learn how to delegate work and discover who may deserve a promotion. You’ll also learn how providing constructive discipline can maintain your team’s morale. We’ll also address how to appraise performance, types of evaluations, and how to best utilize them. You’ll also understand how to bridge the boundaries between your employees, if any exist.

What You'll Learn

Create a positive workplace culture that encourages productivity and a cohesive team
Empower team members by setting goals that benefit the company
Delegate work and identify who may deserve a promotion
Apply constructive discipline to maintain team morale
Appraise performance using different types of evaluations
Bridge boundaries that may exist between employees

Key Takeaways

A supervisor holds a good deal of power that can be used with positive intent.
Empowering teammates involves creating goals that benefit the company and delegating work.
Constructive discipline can help maintain a team's morale.
The course covers how to appraise performance, the types of evaluations, and how to best utilize them.
Supervisors can learn to bridge the boundaries between employees where they exist.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this course for?

This course is for supervisors who want to use their position to create a workplace culture that encourages productivity and a cohesive team.

What does this course cover?

It covers empowering teammates through goal-setting, delegating work, identifying who may deserve a promotion, providing constructive discipline to maintain morale, appraising performance and types of evaluations, and bridging boundaries between employees.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course develops skills in supervision, career development, employee motivation, organizational culture change, and workplace relationships.

What lessons are included?

The lessons are Empowering Teammates, Appraising Performance, Bridging Boundaries, and Test Your Knowledge.

What will I learn about performance evaluation?

You will learn how to appraise performance, the different types of evaluations, and how to best utilize them.