Moving from Peer to Boss: Supervisor 101

Moving from peer to boss is one of the hardest steps in a career. Yesterday you were part of the team; today you supervise the same coworkers, and the relationships have to change.

This 60-minute supervisor 101 webinar shares practical best practices for making that transition well. It looks at the challenges new supervisors meet when they lead people they used to work alongside, and the steps that help you earn respect in the role.

You'll cover the traits of an effective supervisor, how to balance old relationships with new responsibilities, and core day-to-day skills such as setting performance expectations, delegating, running meetings, motivating staff, handling discipline and making decisions.

• Describe the characteristics of an effective supervisor
• Balance and manage relationships with former coworkers
• Earn respect from the people you used to work alongside
• Set clear performance expectations for your team
• Apply the do's and don'ts of effective supervision
• Delegate, motivate and make decisions with confidence

• Building your communication skills as a supervisor
• Setting performance expectations
• Handling discipline when it is needed
• Managing a team of former coworkers
• Running effective meetings
• How and when to delegate
• Motivating employees
• Making decisions
• Characteristics of an effective supervisor
• Balancing and managing relationships with former coworkers
• Gaining respect from former coworkers
• The do's and don'ts of an effective supervisor

A promotion from within brings a new set of relationships to manage. Without a plan, new supervisors can struggle to be taken seriously by the coworkers they now lead.

This session is for newly promoted or newly hired supervisors, team leads and current supervisors who manage former peers, want to gain their respect, build a different kind of working relationship and lead by example.

• Newly hired  or promoted supervisors
• team leads and current supervisors

Tonia Morris is the Founder of Simply HR, LLC. A management and HR consulting firm specializing in Millennial and Multi Generation training and culture transformation. 

Tonia has spent over 30 years in the Human Resource profession focusing on organization development and culture transformation.  Tonia has designed best practices and developed and facilitated training for organizations such as Chick Fil la, Sherwin Williams, Oracles and Universities across the SE.  Tonia has also worked in many industries such as Government, Retail, Information Technology, Financial Services and Education where she was instrumental in their cultural transformation.

Tonia’s passion is to help organization bridge their generation gap and develop cultures that is compassion friendly of each generation.  Tonia is known by many as the Generational Connector.  Tonia is the author of Compassion@work.