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Practical Leadership 1.0: Cultivating Thriving Supervisory Relationships
March 4 @ 1:00 pm – March 6 @ 3:00 pm
Virtual – Live/Online
Fee: $135 for MCN members / $175 for nonmembers
This session is full. There is not a waitlist. Please check our Events Calendar for future offerings of this event.
Effectively carrying out a supervisor role is more “art” than science. Often, people leaders are left on their own to try and figure out how to implement their supervisor duties. Unskilled supervision can create organizational cultures that are ineffective at best, and causing harm at worst. When people leaders understand the expectations of their role, they are able to supervise in a way that fosters healthy working relationships with each employee that reports to them. This, in turn, builds psychological safety and creates thriving, inclusive organizational cultures.
This highly interactive training provides participants with immediately implementable tools and strategies.
This workshop is one of MCN’s most popular trainings and consistently receives high evaluations.
This is a six-hour virtual training spread over three two-hour sessions:
- March 4, 2025 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Central
- March 5, 2025 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Central
- March 6, 2025 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Central
Topics
- Cultivating self-awareness and brain/body response to stress
- Feedback conversation skills
- Developing psychological safety
- Using the Platinum Rule in supervision
- One-on-One check-ins and Supervising Framework
- Coach approach to supervising
Learning Objectives
- Better understand the competencies of the supervisor roles and have improved confidence in implementing the role
- Analysis of the challenges to inclusive leadership with the vertical power dynamic created by hierarchical structures
- Cultivate self-awareness and accountability for fostering positive organizational culture and avoiding destructive behaviors in the workplace
- Increase comfort at holding a range of conversations, including developmental feedback
- Learn strategies for helping employees solve their own challenges
- Build awareness of when to use coaching in the supervisor role
Event Details
This virtual event will take place on the Zoom platform. Your access link will be emailed to you the day before the event after 12 p.m. This session will be recorded. The recording will be made available to registrants after the live event. Captioning is provided automatically through Zoom. For information on requesting CART, ASL, or another accommodation, please visit our Registration Policies page. To learn more about events, registration, and payment, visit our Event & Registration FAQ page.
Speaker Information
Lisa Negstad consults with a diverse clientele of nonprofits, philanthropies, and government in leadership and organizational development. Believing anyone can be a leader, Lisa lives in two worlds: traditional hierarchies, where she helps managers excel in their role, and collective teams, where she helps groups think systemically and improve their shared leadership skills. Before starting her own consulting firm, Lisa held senior leadership and management positions in several international and U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. Lisa has an MBA from Yale and a B.A. in psychology from Luther College and is certified as a human systems dynamics professional. Lisa, an ongoing learner of cultural agility, brings a strong value of inclusion and participatory processes to her training.