Supervisory Development Content Library

Performance reviews are often viewed as difficult by both supervisors and employees. If you manage others, it means reviewing goals that might be out-of-date, preparing for hours, figuring out how to give feedback in a way that’s productive, and helping people set goals.

One of the thorniest challenges for any manager is dealing with conflicts in the workplace. When a member of your team or department is involved in a disagreement at work, your role as a supervisor is to provide feedback and coaching to help them develop and use effective conflict management skills. In many cases, you may not be directly involved, but it's important to provide support to help your staff manage the situation effectively.

This presentation is a deeper dive into managing conflict and focuses on ideas for application.

Conflict in the workplace may be uncomfortable for many, yet it does have a purpose.

One of the biggest lessons we’ve learned during the past year is that work is about what we do, not necessarily where we do it. In this podcast, we’ll cover topics to help you implement flexible work arrangements on your team, and give you tools to manage employees with different flexible work plans.

Onboarding is the process of transforming a new employee into a fully functioning member of your team. When done effectively, it is a powerful employee engagement strategy that helps cultivate long term relationships, promote and understanding of organizational culture and foster a sense of belonging.

This webinar is a deeper dive into the performance management process. It's also a realistic look at why performance management can be so difficult, especially at the University.

Understanding compensation is more than just knowing local pay structures. As a supervisor, you need to clearly know what your local compensation strategy is. In this webinar, we’ll talk about the misconceptions surrounding how we think about pay and outline the key considerations when thinking about your reward strategy. Note: some of the session content only covers pay for non-contract employees, labor unions have contracts that govern their pay.

In this podcast, we discussed best practices in the selection and hiring process and how they can make your experiences more effective

We all know the selection and hiring process can take a lot of time, resources and energy. With all that investment, it’s important to make sure you start off on the right foot before and after hiring your new employee. Having a well-thought-out approach to selection and hiring and a clearly-defined onboarding process will help you retain your newly hired employee and foster their long-term engagement in their position.