Act as a Leader

Hybrid teams are becoming the new norm. With team members working both on-campus and off-site at the same time, supervisors may feel overwhelmed. Fortunately, while there are some specific realities associated with hybrid teams, most of the traditional management practices still apply.

In this crash course, we’ll cover best practices for meetings, communication, scheduling, equitable decision making, and fostering team dynamics and connections for hybrid teams. Using these best practices, you will work with other participants to apply what you’ve learned to a real-world scenario and provide space for you to engage in planning for your own hybrid team.

A checklist and guidance to consider when planning a meeting that may include in-person and virtual participants. As we adapt to facilitating a combination of in-person and virtual working environments, it’s important to make considerations for each style of work to ensure we are also creating an inclusive, collaborative, and productive work environment.

• Follow the links and drop-down menus on the UW-Madison Information Technology Guide on How to Host Inclusive Hybrid Meetings
• Download the Inclusive Meetings Checklist

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A 45 minute overview of the resources provided by LifeMatters.

PMDP provides managers and employees the structure to have frequent, meaningful conversations about expectations, goals and growth opportunities. This module is intended to assist Supervisors with the basics concrete items to do in order to set you and the employee up for success.

Learning Objectives:
Understand expectation/steps for scheduling a performance conversation
Understand expectation/steps for preparing a performance conversation
Understand expectation/steps during a performance conversation meeting

Learning Outcome:
Apply opportunities outlined to prepare and encourage employee participation in performance conversations
Implement your own strategy of preparation using the basics from this training

This module will help you understand, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts and tensions. As a result of this module, you will:

• Identify how people tend to respond to conflict situations and describe the characteristics of interpersonal conflict
• Demonstrate techniques for handling anger and negative emotions that arise in conflict situations
• Create and practice an action plan for addressing a personal conflict

This workshop is designed to help all employees of UW – Madison learn how to provide quality and effective feedback any time that the message is due. Whether feedback is formal or informal, provided to employees, peers or someone else, there are ways that it can be structured to be effective and lasting. Join us in this interactive workshop where we will learn and apply a 5 step process to effectively deliver a message so that people understand it and make changes that may be needed.

Upon completion participants will be able to:
• Define what feedback is and explain what makes it effective
• Apply a 5 step framework for providing feedback
• Identify and apply techniques in delivering difficult messages

According to Gallup, 50% of US adults have left their job to get away from their manager. In Principles of Supervision and Management (PSM), a certificate program for managers and supervisors, learn practical skills to support your team and be a manager/supervisor employees want to work for! Learn and practice skills to create and maintain a healthy, inclusive, and engaging work environment for employees. Manager and supervisor effectiveness in creating an environment which supports employees’ success is crucial to support UW–Madison’s mission “to create, integrate, transfer, and apply knowledge through innovative programs of research, teaching, and public service.”

This module will help you with the skills and tools to effectively lead a group or team through change. As a result of this module, you will:

• Understand the key characteristics of each type of change
• Describe and identify the phases of transition in change
• Determine the mindsets of people in change and how to address each
• Follow the steps of a planned change model
• Practice applying change management concepts