Enhanced Supervision Program LogoDuring the Boldly Elon strategic planning process, staff and faculty articulated the critical importance of supervisory learning and development in building a dynamic working environment where all employees can thrive through new learning pathways and enhanced supervisory training.

Goals, Competencies and Courses

Ten courses (listed below) have been designed to meet the following goals and Office of Leadership and Professional Development leadership competencies.

Cutting edge learning and development designed to:

  • Develop, encourage, and support all supervisors
  • Build a healthy, inclusive and effective work environment

Leadership Competencies DiagramThe seven Elon University leadership competencies:

  • Communication
  • Learning Capacity and Initiative
  • Self-Awareness and Relationships
  • Organizational Acumen
  • Employee Development
  • Technical Knowledge
  • Global Perspective: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

 

Enhanced Supervision Program Courses for 2023-2024

Supervisors must complete the Preparation Form before participating in ESP sessions. Download the Preparation Form here.

Performance Management: Not just a Process, But a Philosophy

Event Details:

  • Instructor: TJ Bowie, Interim Director of HR Compliance and Equal Opportunity
  • Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Oaks 212

Supervisors will learn to:     

  • Understand the Performance Management Philosophy anchored in the concepts of collaboration, continuous improvement, and development.
  • Develop skills to effectively communicate performance expectations, feedback and evaluation.
  • Assess how their personal biases may impact their performance management.

Leadership Competencies:

  • Self-Awareness and Relationships
  • Employee Development/Developing Self and Others
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

 

Emotional Intelligence: A Key to Managing Relationships and Managing Oneself

Event Details:

  • Instructor: Dr. Chris Leupold, Isabella Cannon of Leadership and Professor of Psychology
  • Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:00-1:15 p.m., Oaks 212

Supervisors will learn to: 

  • Interpret their own standing on established dimensions of emotional intelligence by completing one of the most widely used assessment tools.
  • Recognize the link between emotionally intelligent leadership and positive outcomes for the organization, their people, and themselves.
  • Identify their personal potential leadership derailers and consider interventions to regulate them.

Leadership Competencies:

  • Self-Awareness and Relationships
  • Communication
  • Learning Capacity and Initiative

 

Focusing on the Big Picture: Connecting to Department & University Strategy & Mission

Event Details:

  • Instructor: Patrick Noltemeyer, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Associate Vice President
  • Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Oaks 212

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Connect departmental goals to mission & strategic plan.
  • Help employees understand how their work supports students as well as university goals and objectives.
  • Explain how their departments connect to the Elon University strategic plan.

Leadership Competencies:

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the upcoming programs for 2024!

Past Enhanced Supervision Programs (ESPs)

Purpose for Performance: Supervision and Motivation

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Connect purpose and personal/professional well-being
  • Activate purpose in employees’ work
  • Teach employees steps to feeling more purposeful
  • Create an environment to keep employees focused on purpose throughout the year

Leadership Competencies:

  • Employee Development
  • Supervising for Goal/Strategy Achievement
  • Organizational Acumen

Building an Effective Team or Department

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Apply the DAC model (Direction, Alignment, Commitment) to a current team
  • Navigate the key elements of a systems process
  • Manage challenges and benefits of best practices in leading teams

Leadership Competencies:

  • Organizational Acumen
  • Supervising for Goal/Strategy Achievement

Managing Conflict and Difficult Conversations

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Approach conflict successfully
  • Practice a specific approach to addressing a conflict
  • Achieve positive outcomes for difficult conversations

Leadership Competencies:

  • Learning Capacity
  • Employee Development
  • Communication

Managing Performance: Writing Effective Performance Reviews/Giving and Receiving Feedback

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Utilize the SBI (Situation, Behavior, Impact) tool for giving feedback
  • Practice skills needed to actively listen, understand employees’ goals and perspectives, and motivate enhanced performance
  • Effectively complete all components of a performance review

Leadership Competencies:

  • Learning Capacity
  • Employee Development
  • Communication

Policies and Procedures: Best Practices in HR

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Navigate sensitive employment matters
  • Identify compliance topics and being prepared to respond
  • Utilize employee resources for a healthier team

Leadership Competencies:

  • Learning Capacity
  • Employee Development
  • Communication

Managing Change and Motivating Employees through Change

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Differentiate between the external process of change and internal process of transition
  • Plan a change process, including ways to motivate employees
  • Practice effective change conversations

Leadership Competencies:

  • Organizational Acumen
  • Supervising for Goal/Strategy Achievement

Budgets: Managing Funds and Using Budgets to Achieve Goals

Supervisors will learn to:

  • Use OnTrack and accounting forms to manage budgets
  • Explain and analyze the line items of budgets

Leadership Competencies:

  • Technical Knowledge

BE Aware: Unlearning Bias, Part 1

Leadership Competencies:

  • Supervisors will recognize, and assist their direct reports in recognizing that bias exists within all people.
  • Supervisors will understand the differences between identity-based bias and general biased attitudes.
  • Supervisors will identify bias attitudes and how this affects supervision style and actions.

BE Accountable: Identifying and Responding to Bias, Part 2

Leadership Competencies:

  • Supervisors will understand the Bias Response and Education Process at Elon.
  • Supervisors will discuss strategies to address bias-related incidents in their departments.
  • Supervisors will identify resources to support direct reports who experience identity-based bias in the workplace.

BE Advocates: Shifting Department/Campus Culture, Part 3

Leadership Competencies:

  • Supervisors will discuss how anti-bias advocacy supports inclusive supervision strategies.
  • Supervisors will explore tools for effective advocacy and inclusive supervision.
  • Supervisors will develop steps to promote anti-bias and inclusion in respective departments to support direct reports across all identities.