Employee Supervision: Role of the Supervisor

What can supervisors do to motivate employees? The reality, when you talk about how to motivate employees, is that employees are motivated. The supervisor's challenge is to figure out how to tap into that motivation to accomplish work goals. Fortunately, he or she controls environmental factors that are key in motivating employees. Find out more...

Managers perennially ask why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do. While part of the responsibility falls on choices individual employees make, managers need to shoulder part of the blame, too. Employees want to succeed at work. I don’t know a single person who gets up in the morning and says, “I think I’ll go to work to fail today.”...

Looking for real management advice about people? You want to create an environment in which people are empowered, productive, and happy. Don't hobble them by limiting their tools or information. Trust them to do the right thing. These are the most important principles for managing people. They reinforce employee empowerment, accomplishment, and...

You can make their day or break their day. Your choice. No kidding. Other than the decisions individuals make on their own about liking their work, you are the most powerful factor in employee motivation and morale. Learn ten tips for creating a workplace with high employee motivation and morale.

These five dumb things are addressed from the perspective of managers but they are equally true for people working in supervisory roles. Here are five dumb things that managers do and how to avoid doing them.

As a supervisor, you can explore the various management styles that are available to you as you lead and manage the employees who report to you. Different management styles are more effective depending on the circumstances. Find out more about recommended management styles.

Supervisors make mistakes managing people because they don't understand what it takes to create motivated, contributing employees. Sometimes, it's a lack of skill due to insufficient training. Other times, supervisors make mistakes managing people because they're out of touch with their values. Find out the top 10 management mistakes supervisors...

In even the best organizations, supervisors sometimes lack the knowledge and skill to realize when they are messing up their relationships with people. Here are the top 20 ways that supervisors and organizations mess up their relationships with people.

Looking for a step-by-step coaching approach you can use to help an employee improve his work performance? This approach avoids discipline and produces great results.

Clear performance expectations are a critical factor in teamwork success. Whether your goal is to develop a project team, your departmental team, or a sense of teamwork company-wide, clear performance expectations support teamwork success. Use clear performance expectations to help your employees develop accountable, productive, meaningful, participatory teamwork.

Your expectations of people and their expectations of themselves are the key factors in how well people perform at work. Known as the Pygmalion Effect and the Galatea Effect, respectively, the power of expectations cannot be overestimated. These are the fundamental principles you can apply to performance expectations and performance improvement...

Performance management encompasses the important people issues in your organization. Performance management includes the entire relationship you have with the people you employ. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when you define a job. Learn more.

Your leadership style is situational. Your leadership style depends on the task, the team or individual's capabilities and knowledge, the time and tools available and the results desired. These six tips for successful delegation will help you with employee involvement and employee empowerment as your selected leadership style.

As a supervisor or manager you need to know how to provide helpful feedback that will actually have an impact on employee performance. These steps will help you to provide effective feedback that has an impact on performance.

Looking for quick tips about how to set a positive example for staff members by taking the impact of your role as "boss" seriously? You've found ten tips here.

The attention, recognition, and the leadership of the supervisor trumps every other factor in your work environment to create motivated employees. Find out more.