Leadership and Motivation Session 1

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Leadership and MotivationSession 1
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Introduction

• Purpose of the Course
• Your ongoing career development
• Elevate the level of productivity improvement
  awareness among construction supervisors
• Why study supervision?
• Learn to be a supervisor
• Learn to walk the new line between craft worker
  and supervisor
• Learn about more opportunities in your industry

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Introduction to STP

• Supervisory Training Program Courses
• Unit 1, Leadership and Motivation
• Unit 2, Oral and Written Communication
• Unit 3, Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Unit 4, Contract Documents and Construction Law
• Unit 5, Planning and Scheduling
• Unit 6, Understanding and Managing Project Costs
• Unit 7, Accident Prevention and Loss Control
• Unit 8, Managing the Project The Supervisors
  Role
• Unit 9, Productivity Improvement

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How This Course is Organized

• Session Breakdown
• Dollars and Sense of People and Construction
• The Role of the Construction Supervisor
• Helping People Perform Better
• Motivation
• Leading Others
• You Get What You Expect
• Positive Feedback
• Training and Orienting Crew Members
• Teams and Team Building
• Leadership Skills in Action

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Purpose of the Course

• Your ongoing career development
• Increase your awareness of different leadership
  styles
• Increase your awareness of the motivational
  factors you can control and the motivational
  factors workers can control

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Introduction

• Learning Goals for Session 1
• value of effective supervision of workers
• Learning Objectives
• recognize the importance of people to the success
  of the organization
• identify factors associated with poor supervision
  practices
• list causes of high personnel turnover
• identify costs associated with training new
  workers
• list causes of communication breakdowns and their
  costs to a project
• recognize that low trust, poor teamwork, and lack
  of cooperation cost money

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Costs Associated With Turnover

• High rate of accidents
• Costs associated with turnover
• Slow rate of learning new tasks, jobs, and skills
• Low trust and communication breakdown
• Poor teamwork and cooperation

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Causes of Turnover

• Reasons for turnover might include
• Poor initial job match with the individual
• False role expectations
• Not fitting in with the crew or work culture
• The job conflicts with outside interests
• Information overload
• Poor training, slow skill development
• Not enough information or untimely feedback

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Low Trust and Communication Breakdown

• This tends to prevent or inhibit accurate and
  timely exchange of information

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Using on the Job What You Learned Today

• Jobsite Assignment
• how might you do some things differently to help
  improve profits?
• select one specific concept from this session
  that you believe you can improve this week
• To Get Ready for Session 2
• Read Session 2, The Role of the Construction
  Supervisor
• Be sure you understand these ideas
• factors that motivate workers
• communication mechanisms among supervisor and
  crew members
• assigning work
• leading others to perform quality work
• identifying company cultural values

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