Location: Moretown
Training Type: Hybrid (part in person, part online)
Total Hours: 8
Cost: Free
Scholarship: No
deb Grennon
(802) 341-0268
debwg@firstchildrensfinance.org
Leadership Learning Series November 26, 2024
The Leadership Learning Series was designed to cultivate a learning peer group to support supervisory professional development. The series has been designed for program directors, administrators and other supervisors of people who are interested in and committed to developing their supervisory skills with guidance, accountability and support.
This series is a 6-month commitment, meeting once per month, to help participants develop their supervisory skills. Each workshop will introduce a topic, and provide cohort with access to practice tips/tools, and opportunity to practice and collaborate with peers and action items to reinforce learning in between sessions. After the first session, each participant will set a supervisory professional development goal and action plan to focus on throughout the program. Each participant will have access to up to two one-hour coaching session for additional support.
- Professionalism & Ethical Practice
- Mentors/Coaches
- Program Directors/Managers
In-person locations are TBD Folks will register for the whole series and are able to make the commitment to participate throughout. The 6 month series consists of 6 workshops (the first meeting and sixth meeting are in person, workshops 2-5 are virtual).
Dates and Workshop Topics: January 9th, 2025 (in-person) | 1:00p-3:00p | Kickoff; What Makes a Great Supervisor -Establish expectations for work together -Learn a framework for what makes a great supervisor -Assess current strengths/focus areas -Develop a draft supervisory professional development goal {
February 13th, 2025 (virtual) | 1:00p-2:00p | Prioritizing and Focusing on What Matters Most -Learn about and practice using several tools to help prioritize work -Consider how these tools can be used for self and others
March 13, 2025 (virtual) | 1:00p-2:00p | Setting Clear Goals and Expectations -Discuss best practices for setting goals and expectations -Learn about and practice using tools to establish expectations
April 10th, 2025 (virtual) | 1:00p-2:00p | Recognizing and Appreciating Staff -Learn about and practice using several approaches to recognize and appreciate staff -Create a staff recognition plan and commit to trying new approaches
May 8th, 2025 (virtual) | 1:00p-2:00p | Having Hard Conversations -Learn a 5-step process for having hard conversations -Practice having critical conversations and prepare for having a hard conversation
June 5th, 2025 (in-person) | 1:00p-3:00p | Tying it all Together and Sustaining the Learning -Refresher on all of the tools and reflect on the collective learning -Commit to ongoing and sustained learning