Leading and Managing Small Units

Length: 1 day
Target Audience: 
Incumbent and prospective front-line supervisors

The Leading and Managing Small Units\Squads\Teams workshop targets the day-to-day responsibilities of front-line supervisors. In short, the class addresses the challenges and headaches that often pull leaders away from their greatest asset – their people. Objectives will address both leading and managing squads/units/teams of officers. Facilitators will work with participants to develop their capacity to apply sound leadership and management approaches to the daily administrative role of a front-line supervisor.

Topics include: conducting effective roll-calls/briefings/meetings, assisting employees with career development, managing assignments/correspondence, promoting leadership at all levels, and handling general daily performance management issues. Participants will apply and practice their leadership, management, critical-thinking, decision-making, judgment, supervision, and organizing skills during small group activities using realistic work-related scenarios.

Objectives:

  • Review delegation strategies designed to develop others
  • Promote environments that instill continual training with shared responsibility
  • Discuss squad related matters that sometime challenge front-line supervisors
    – Staffing
    – Ancillary duties
    – Tracking of tasks and assignments

– Performance management issues

  • Review various approaches to managing small units/squads/teams
  • Develop systems and processes to track and monitor tasks
  • Analyze and debate approaches to squad leadership and management
  • Review career planning considerations as part of your employees’ development
  • Identify leadership opportunities that exist during daily supervisor employee interactions
  • Distinguish management from leadership

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