Looking for additional leadership opportunities for your new supervisors and aspiring and emerging leaders? Want to bring training to your team? Join us for our GROW classes, indicted on our Classes & Training page by the icon at left. These affordable courses are designed to help you improve your skills in areas like conflict management, emotional intelligence, delegation, communication, performance management, and more.
Overview
Your first step in leadership development
Taking on new supervisory responsibilities is a great opportunity and challenge. Many in supervisory roles have learned either by trial and error or by following what was done by their predecessor. In most cases, this is not a very effective strategy. This course will start you in the right direction with fundamental leadership skills and ideas for how to continue your growth as a supervisor and leader.
Who should attend?
- Newly promoted or hired supervisors
- Small business owners starting to supervise employees
- Candidates for upcoming supervisory positions
Benefits of attending this program:
- Reduced stress associated with supervision
- Increased confidence in your leadership ability
- Improved team performance
- Focus on the most important things as a supervisor/leader
- Plan for continued training and development to build skills and knowledge over time
Key topics addressed:
- New role = new mindset
- Basic supervisory responsibilities
- Dealing with co-workers in your new role
- Improving communication in your team
- Effective delegation
- Recognizing and motivating team members
- Planning your future leadership development
Course Objectives:
- Distinguish specific leadership behaviors
- Practice specific behaviors correlated with exemplary leadership performance
- Integrate specific leadership habits into their daily activities
- Evaluate their progress in developing as a leader
- Understand strategies to help others develop their leadership behaviors
- Design a personal action plan for developing their own leadership behaviors
Registration
Location: Grainger Hall, UW-Madison
Date: March 1, 2023
Schedule: 8:30-4:30
Fee: $269
Register Now for Spring 2023 or call 608-262-2451 to register. BONUS: Place 2 or more paid leadership courses in your cart, and use discount code SBDC10 for 10% off. Classes must be purchased in the same transaction.
Registration policy: Payment will be required at time of registration; you must have either a credit card or valid UW-Madison funding string to be able to register.
Cancellation policy: If you cancel before the program begins, there is a $25 cancellation fee. If you cancel after the program begins you will be charged for the full program fee. To cancel, call registration at 608-262-2451.
Disability Statement: Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact the UW-Madison SBDC office at sbdc@bus.wisc.edu to request accommodations.
The Small Business Development Center at UW Madison is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
[I liked] that [the course] was interactive and it made you think of the management that you have had in the past and what you want when you are in a management role yourself.
James Ragland, Gunderson Funeral Home
Sarah was very upbeat and engaging and talked on many topics I was struggling with as a leader. Great course! Learned a lot!
Shop Lead, Prairie Rivet (Fall 2022 participant)
Sarah brought the energy! She had relevant, real-life experience for every point. She was approachable and daftly answered all questions. [The session] was short but jam-packed, including tactical strategies and tips, and chock-full of [leadership] mindset.
Amanda, Mid-West Family, Madison (Summer 2022 participant)
Sarah was glorious! Adored the energy, content, and authenticity. She was prepared, honest/transparent, and did a great navigating many kinds of personalities. She had great connection-making skills and outstanding energy.
Summer 2022 class participant
I liked that [this course] was interactive, and we were able to learn that other teams have similar struggles to ours. The instructor was wonderfully open, approachable and kind! She made it easy to pay attention for a whole day.
Sustainable Food Group - Junior Project Manager
The course offered good perspective on cultivating awareness of how my decisions and behavior impact other team members.
Jason Gates, Estimating Manager, Paul Davis of South Central WI
[This course] gave me more to consider as a manager and how my investment in myself cycles back to employees/staff and how I can do more to bring us together as a whole team.
Carly, Retail Specialist, Goodwill SCWI
Instructors
SARAH SMYRK, RCC™, CLF®, CCMP®
Assistant Director of PX Adoption
Sarah’s career is driven by her desire to understand and relate to people. Throughout her career she has worked in many roles to help business leaders drive product and program strategies that are rooted in strong relationships, made by data-driven decisions, and centered around the holistic customer experience. She is passionate about working closely with individuals to help them achieve top levels of success and take their business to the next level while providing an outstanding client experience. Using her leadership skills and experience as a Registered Corporate Coach™ (RCC), she has excelled at helping teams build and implement programs that help strengthen and reinforce goals and top priorities.
In her current role with Northwestern Mutual, Sarah is responsible for leading the adoption strategy for their planning experience. Sarah joined Northwestern Mutual in 2016 and had held leadership roles in Enterprise Compliance and Change Management where she earned her Chartered Leadership Fellow (CLF®)designation through the American College and Certification as a Change Management Professional (CCMP®) through PROSCI. She is currently undergoing additional change management designations through LaMarsh Global.
Previously, Sarah was with CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, WI, from 2007-2016, where she was responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and execution of training initiatives for CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc. (CBSI) and its financial advisors. In addition, she was responsible for training for CUNA Mutual Group’s Life, Annuity and Health Product Sales Teams.
Sarah also focuses on programs that help females in the financial services industry succeed. While at CUNA Mutual Group, she developed and led CBSI’s Women of Distinction program; a group of the company’s top female financial advisors. The group focused on mentoring advisors who were either new to organization or to the industry.
Sarah lives in Sun Prairie, WI with her husband Sam. She is actively involved in both the United Way of Milwaukee County and Dane County and is currently serving as the 2020 United Way Campaign Chair for all of Northwestern Mutual. She actively volunteers with several other non-profit organizations as part of Northwestern Mutual’s Foundation. In 2013, she was recognized by Madison’s InBusiness magazine as “40 Under 40.” Sarah is a competitive bodybuilder, enjoys working out, and always being active.
The Wisconsin SBDC Network is a proud part of the Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship in the University of Wisconsin System.
It is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact us at sbdc@bus.wisc.edu or call (608) 263-2221.