Supervisory Skills for Project Managers
Supportive supervision is a key to empower team members and strengthen their capabilities. While all managers have such intentions, they need to master the techniques and utilize tools that can help them achieve such a goal.
· Control is a key function of management
· How supervision is different from other types of control in management
· Supervision as a mentoring and coaching tool
· Performance standards and technical guides
· How to make practical and relevant tools for supervision
· Supervisory role importance for project manager
· Continuous learning and quality improvement
· Introduction to control function of management
· Supervision and its difference from other control mechanisms
· Importance of supervision
· Steps in supervision
· Planning for supervisory role of a project manager
· Tools for supervision in a project management context
· Relating supervision to mentoring, coaching and development
· Project Goal and Objectives
· Designing tools for supervision
· Communication skills for supervision
· Constructive Feedback use in supervision
· Supervision of different types of people
· Supervision of contractors and freelancers
· Active listening and its importance in supervision
· The cause and effect approach for fact finding
· Do not fix something that is not broken
· The level of autonomy for supervisees
· The art of delegation
· Relating performance to goals
· Different factors of human character
· Working with difficult people
· Utilization of Results in Project Planning
· Continuous quality improvement using monitoring
This course has been specifically designed for project managers, officers and any person involved in project management to enhance their supervisory skills.