Advanced Management Skills for Maintenance Supervisors and Team Leaders Seminar

This program is designed for: This course is designed for people who supervise or manage maintenance work. Its focus is on the more advanced requirements of supervision. Ideal candidates either supervise maintenance workers or manage maintenance through supervisors. This course is also recommended for people being considered for advancement. Both Courses can be given in the same week.

Our promise for this program is that your supervisors will be more effective and have a better quality of life. This effectiveness will gradually translate to lower employee turnover and increased output.

Learn how successful supervisors actually motivated maintenance workers in organizations throughout North America. Advanced time management: Includes setting priorities, self-discipline techniques, 20 time savers, and additional resources for improvements. How and why to work efficiently from a clean desk and a master to-do list. How to increase the bang for your training dollar by determining who in your workgroup would benefit the most from training and how to set-up real craft training. Evaluate and improve your face-to-face communication skills. Learn the seven daily habits of successful supervisors. Learn how to run meetings. Improve the delivery of maintenance service to your own users.

In-house courses have significant advantages in addition to saving money (over 5 people)

1. 100% of the course will pertain to your industry and your maintenance situation.
2. Can be adapted to your maintenance language and forms to be easily usable.
3. Special issues can be discussed on a confidential basis with the instructor.
4. Schedule to be convenient to your business cycle.
5. Use as a team building experience.
6. Create a shared a common language and vision for maintenance.


Agenda:
  • Supervisor time management, How to Supercharge your time: Productivity improvement more advanced specific time management tech¬niques designed for maintenance supervisors. Includes the seven daily habits of highly successful supervisors, personal planning, improved productivity, and resources for additional focus.
  • Learn from successful maintenance supervisors how to motivate your work group: Current ideas on motivation, introduction of strategies of successful motivation techniques compiled from actual maintenance crews, Answer the important question, how can a maintenance supervisor motivate the workgroup?
  • Everything you need to know about craft training: Teaching and coaching, Issue: how to run a 90's factory with 70's skills, preparation worksheets, checklists, techniques, sources of materials, how to get the most from people through training. Measuring effectiveness of training.
  • Craft training exercise, actually set-up craft training: Workshop in teaching and coaching, students will use worksheets and checklists to design a real skills training exercise. Students can use the materials they prepare in this exercise when they get back to their facility
  • Communication workshop: Workshop in communications, improve your ability to get your point across, be understood by maintenance workers, how are you as a communicator? Exercise in improving your communica¬tion skills.
  • Meeting trainer: What are the attributes of a great meeting? How can you improve your meetings? Checklist for improvement
  • Putting it all together: Putting all the information together and develop a plan for success. Improve your maintenance I.Q. through selected readings and resources. Increase your value to your department.
  • This course builds on the material in Management Skills for Maintenance Leaders, supervisors and managers. The two courses can be offered together in one week or can be given up to several months apart. This course can also be offered stand alone to a more experienced group of maintenance leaders.

Three options for the Maintenance Management Seminar
  • Option 1: The most basic way is to just talk on the phone (or use E-mail) and then present a standard course. The courses are tried and tested and has been used to good effect in many maintenance situations.
  • Option 2: The second and most common option involves a one day site visit before the class, which allows me to add examples from your facility and adjust the verbal presentation to more nearly suit your needs, meet some of the key players and see for myself some of the special problems you face.
  • Option 3: The third option is to conduct a maintenance survey which looks at all of the aspects of maintenance, evaluates areas where improvements are possible and a slanting of the training to the competencies needed to implement the improvements uncovered in the survey.


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