How to Be a Terrific Supervisor

The best way to excel at work and protect your job as a supervisor is to be a great supervisor. Here are tips of how to do just that.

Instructions

1. First maintain a friendly and productive relationship with your employees. Make sure that you act in a manner that suggests you care about them. Ask them how they are doing and express interest in their work and training goals. It is only by having this relationship where they want to work for you that you will get the work done quickly and in a high quality manner. Making their priority yours helps you get them to make your priority theirs.

2. Next make sure that you are communicating clearly. Tell your staff what you want, explain the tasks you think need to be accomplished to get the task done, and ask if they have any questions. Never assume that they know what you need. Staff, in most cases, are not mind readers.

3. Next make sure that you keep the your eye out for employees doing something great. Then when you catch them doing something great you can complement them. This helps build a strong relationship and loyalty. It also encourages them to do other great things.

4. Now make sure to take the time to listen. This helps your staff know that they are respected. You can become a better listen by making sure to stop what you are doing when the staff comes to talk to you. Then offer them a seat to help make them comfortable and do not interrupt. Make sure that you empathize and paraphrase so they know that you understand and care.

5. Now make sure that you are mature. Being a supervisor means that you need to be mature and can not have the luxury of being able to react emotionally. It also means that you must be confidential and not talk about anything that staff told you in private.

6. Now make sure that you delegate. One mistake new supervisors often make is thinking that they need to do everything themselves which drives both them and their employees crazy. Make sure to give staff work.

7. Also make sure that you are honest at all times. Do not be scared to say that you do not know something or made a mistake. You are human and it is much better to admit a problem that try to backpedal.

8. Last but not least make sure to give credit to staff when they deserve it and defend them when they need it. This will help garner trust from them and make them want to work for you.