Enhance your leadership skills, managerial capabilities, and overall effectiveness in your supervisory or managerial role. We provide training, resources, and support to help supervisors excel in their roles and contribute to the success of their teams.
Begin with a plan
Create a professional Development Plan (PDP) to establish both your career development goals and a strategy to meet them. Explore the resources provided to learn more about the planning process and get started on developing your own PDP.
Create a PDPLearn Supervisor Essentials
New to a supervisory role at UNL in the past two years.
Titles here
Take TrainingSupervisor Development Series
Elevate your supervisory skills and drive performance excellence.
Supervisor Development SeriesBridge LMS
Take Online Learning
Enroll for on-demand online learning through the University of Nebraska's e-learning portal. To find courses recommended for a supervisor, click the Tags link in the upper right and select Supervisor.
Bridge LMSBusiness Central
Become familiar with UNL Business Basics
Become familiar with some basic business functions at UNL with an introduction to SAP, HR data, and financial basics.
Business BasicsHR/ODI
Participate in Professional Development
Take one, several, or all the sessions that are of interest to you.
View the SeriesThe Seven Expectations of Leaders by Gallup®
- Build relationships: Establish connections with others to build trust, share ideas and accomplish work.
- Develop people: Help others become more effective through strengths development, clear expectations, encouragement and coaching.
- Lead change: Recognize that change is essential, set goals for change and lead purposeful efforts to adapt work that aligns with the stated vision.
- Inspire others: Encourage others through positivity, vision, confidence, challenge and recognition.
- Think critically: Seek information, critically evaluate the information, apply the knowledge gained and solve problems.
- Communicate clearly: Listen, share information concisely and with purpose, and be open to hearing opinions.
- Create accountability: Identify the consequences of actions and hold yourself and others responsible for performance.
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Trusted Resources
- Building Leader Confidence in Transition: We Can’t Do It Alone (CUPA-HR Webinar)
- The Most Important Things a New Manager Should Know (The Management Center Article)
- How to Be a Great Supervisor (Middle Management Academy Webinar)
- MMA Leadership Series: Day to Day Supervision Webinar (Middle Management Academy Webinar)
- Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning (coursera)
- Leading Transformations: Manage Change (coursera)
- Leading for equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education (coursera)
- Teamwork Skills: Communicating effectively in groups, (coursera)
- Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills (coursera)
- Intercultural Communication and Conflict Resolution (coursera)
- Four Simple Leadership Practices To Bring Out The Best Of Your Team (Forbes article)
- Four Simple Actions (IU Human Resources)