Who Am I, Who Am I?

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Who are you?

Who am I, who am i?
You are a supervisor?
You are a shift leader?
 When did you become a supervisor? On
which occasion?
 Do you see the differences between a
supervisor and other employees?
 What are difficulties you have to face in your
job?
 In what way you are assigned and supported
by your head of department?
Introduction

 Supervisors are the people who execute and maintain


organization’s standards. They are also the link
between senior managers and staffs.
 Supervisors not only monitor staffs’ performance but
also are responsible for customers’ dissatisfaction and
employees’ low spirits and productivity.
 In summary, the supervisor is an important and
difficult job.
Becoming a supervisor - getting a
step on managing scale.
What do you get when becoming
a supervisor?
 Happiness, pride
 Salary, bonus
 Envy
 Confusion
 Have you trained as a supervisor yet?
Purposes of the training session:
 Explaining the role of a supervisor
 Understanding the staff and have equivalent
methods of supervision.
 Effective communication
 Showing leadership and team building skill
 Training the staff effectively
 Good skill of appraising staff
Unit 1: Definition of a supervisor
1. The role of a supervisor
 You directly manage a certain
number of staff.
 Your duties are:
+ finding methods to support your
team in their jobs
+ ensuring that employees have
sufficient conditions to become
specialists at their fields.
How to support your staff?

 You support your staff by:

• Good planning
• Good organizing
.Clear orientations
Listen, encourage, compliment, instruct,
Resolve conflict, protect your team
FO Supervisor
General
 To assist in the building of an efficient team of employees by taking an
active interest in their welfare, safety and development.
 To encourage employees to maintain good relationships with their
colleagues and all other departments.
 To ensure that all employees report for duty punctually, wearing the correct
uniform and name tag at all times. To ensure that they maintain a high
standard of personal appearance and hygiene and adhere to the hotel and
department’s grooming standards.
 To ensure that all employees provide a friendly, courteous and professional
service at all times.
 To assist in the training of employees making sure that they have the skills
necessary to perform their duties in the most productive way.
 To supervise employees within the department, making sure that the correct
standards and methods of service are maintained as stated in the
Departmental Operations Manual.
 To ensure that the Department's operational budget is strictly adhered to,
that all costs are controlled and expenditures are properly approved.
FO SUP.
 To read the hotel's Employee Handbook and have an understanding of
and adhere to the hotel's rules and regulations and in particular, the
policies and procedures relating to Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety.
 To comply with local legislation and be conversant and act in accordance
with any legal issues relating to your department.
 To respond to any changes in the department as dictated by the needs of
the industry, company or hotel.
 To be flexible in your job function and perform any other reasonable
duties and responsibilities which may be assigned to you, including
redeployment to other departments/areas if required, in order to meet
business demands and guest service needs.
 To attend training sessions and meetings as and when required.
 To conduct and/or contribute to regular Departmental Communication
Meetings.
 To ensure rosters are posted and timesheets submitted on time.
 To ensure that all employees are treated fairly and consistently as
outlined in their terms and conditions of employment, local legislation, and
company/hotel policies and procedures.
Summary of supervisor’s roles

1. Lead and support members


2. Build team
3. Complete missions

Lead and
support Build team
members

Complete
missions
2. Main factors of supervision

a. Know the duty well


 If the supervisors don’t know their duty well,
then the supervision is a vague concept.
 Need a clear job description
Main factors of supervision.

b. Understand your staff


 Know all staff’s capability
 Set up suitable methods for supervision
 Be not afraid of supporting your team
 Coordinate activities of the team effectively
Main factors of supervision

c. Understand your managers


 Broaden employees’ views into multi-perspectives not
only within your team but also in others
 Frequently contact your superiors in order to convey the
orders to your subordinates
 Master company’s managing system and policies
d. Flexibility
 Know how to balance the workload,
cooperate with your staff, plan duty roster
 Avoid having staffs realize that they are
strictly observed
f. Communication skill and
humanity
 Supervisors have authorities, however those
authorities may be easily ignored by staff.
Hence, the supervisors should:
 Asking better than instructing
 Giving instruction better than making requests
 Training better than showing off
 Making questions better than decisions
e. TRAINING

 Employees who don’t meet requirements for


lack of skills, knowledge or motivation must
be trained.
 It may be short-term or long-term training
plan.
g. Communicate
 Make use of every chances to
communicate with your staff
 Choose suitable methods of
communicating
h. Listen
 Listening is always a positive
message with other people.
 Only listening can judge and give
the appropriate comments.
i. Professional knowledge

 Always upgrade your professional


knowledge to receive respect from
your staff
k. Having sense of humor

 If humor is used appropriately, it can bring


the light to matters without hurting others.
Also, it creates the sense of teamwork.
 Be happy
 Enjoy your work and life
Relations of supervision

Colleagues Superiors

Supervisor

Customers Members in the


team
Sales Organisation Development
Emotions when becoming a
supervisor
 Be worried about colleagues
 Be worried about your employees
 Be given a trial by the subordinates
 Be given a trial by your superiors
 Confuse
 Improve personal style
Discuss

 Team building
 Individual improving
 Mission accomplished
Individual improving
 I believe
that
employees Admit every individual
are the  Listen
invaluable
 Train and manage
properties
of every  Give information and feedbacks
company. 
Hence we
Give them a trial on necessary
should give “If your actions inspire others to dream more,
them the learn more, do more and become more, you
respect. are a leader. John Quincy Adams (6th
President of the United States) 
Mission accomplished
 Consider the background on doing duties
 Identify the target
 Frequently remind
 Enhance, support the good deeds
 Provide resources, methods, information
 Create favorable conditions for problem
solving
“Willingness to learn, to cope with difficulties
and to overcome failures is the keys to
success”- Sonny Sơn
Team building

 Create conditions for cooperation


 Lead the team
 Compliment the team
 Create conditions for communication
 Support the team
 Fight for the team
“ I always share the success with my
staffs because it is them who did it”-
Sonny Sơn
Comprehend your group

 Every member’s capability


 Find out experienced people
 Show weak points and new points
 Prevent the group from conflicts
 “The success doesn’t depend on me but the
whole staff, from employees to managers. I
rely on your assistance.”
Standards of a good supervisor
 Specialist knowledge
 Ability to hold events
 Leadership skill
 Loyal
 Quick-witted
 High sense of responsibility
 Resourceful
 Follow manager’s instruction
 Determined
 Eager to learn
3. Some advises for a new
supervisor
 You are not required to be the most skillful employee.
 Clearly prove that you are in need of instruction
 Allow your team itself to handle the difficulties.
 Admit your faults, suspects and fears
 Consider staff’s ability
 Encourage sense of humor

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