New Supervisor and Manager Training
This program is geared to prepare your employees who are headed towards or have just landed in, a career in management. Don’t leave success to chance. Prepare your team’s new and next leaders on what it takes to succeed now!
FORMAT
One full-day, intensive, in-person seminar for YOUR TEAM with a highly experienced leader.
BEST FOR
Cohorts of your employees looking at entering management and your newly promoted managers and supervisors. Experienced managers or supervisors can also benefit by refreshing their skills.
LOCATION
Your site or at a nearby conference center.
New Supervisor & Manager Workshop Description
Many people land in their first management role without any training on the skills they will need. Their role fundamentally changes as a manager. They no longer “do.” They need to orchestrate the success of the team through individuals who “do.” As leaders, we need to break the cycle and prepare our new and next managers in these new skills.
This program will prepare new, or upcoming, managers and supervisors to understand their new roles and how to handle situations that will occur.
This in-person workshop can be scheduled and held at your site for your team. We will discuss and complete activities that will reinforce the necessary skills for managers to lead their teams and deliver results! Class sizes are kept purposely small at less than 20 people to maximize the learning impact through active participation.
Each participant will complete a follow-up ‘Practice Commitment Contract’ to ensure this is not your typical check-the-box workshop. This ‘contract’ will require them to practice key learnings and reinforce behavior changes, to ensure that the skills are practiced and deployed!
Topics to be covered in depth include:
Why Aspire to Leadership? Do you have enough of the right motivation?
Styles of leadership and when to use each
7 Key Qualities of Leadership
What it means to be coachable and why that is critical.
How to demonstrate empathy and why that’s important.
Importance of resilience. How to not get crushed!
Key behaviors and traps for the leader.
Key communication skills and pitfalls.
Coaching and developing YOUR team.
Managing conflict and accountability.
These topics are taught based on current theory and research and then are reinforced with real-life experience and examples. Participants will partake in activities during the workshop to reinforce key points and ensure they understand that the tools presented have practical applications and that the experience is memorable! We start with broad topics and then get very specific with the skills needed to succeed and deliver results.
Outcomes
Deliverable outcomes from the Preparation for Management program include:
Equipping new managers and potential managers with the right skills to succeed in a managerial role.
Commitment of the participants to meaningful practice in their leadership behaviors.
Excellent retention of knowledge gained based on use of fun and memorable learning techniques.
PRICING
From $4,995 for a program with up to 20 participants. The program is customizable for your team.
Meet your Instructor
Jeff Lasselle
An accomplished operations executive with over 30 years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring teams at the department, site, and regional levels within large multinational organizations. Known for building high-performing teams and fostering strong safety cultures, Jeff has consistently delivered operational excellence in complex manufacturing and distribution environments.
As Operations Vice President for Aldrich Chemical, a Merck KGaA subsidiary, Jeff received the 2021 People Leadership Award for his steady leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, he earned the 2015 Global Safety Award at Sigma Aldrich for spearheading a global leadership development initiative that trained 1,200 people-leaders, significantly improving safety culture and results across the international operational footprint of over 50 sites in dozens of countries.
Jeff began his career as a Chemical Process Engineer before quickly transitioning into leadership roles, driven by a passion for improvement—especially in safety. His career has spanned leadership of large departments in production, shipping, and maintenance, full-site manufacturing leadership (150–700 employees), and multi-site regional operations across North America. His leadership journey includes key roles at Merck KGaA, Sigma Aldrich Corporation, Sherwin Williams, and RPM International.
In 2023, Jeff founded Boosting Leadership, LLC, a consultancy focused on coaching and developing people leaders.
Jeff's areas of expertise include:
Developing future leaders
Coaching executives to optimize their impact
Driving organizational change and employee engagement
Jeff holds a BS-degree in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University, an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, and a certificate in management from the Kellogg School of Management.
FAQs
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Currently this course is arranged for corporate clients for their teams of between 6 and 20 participants per program.
The Foundations of Leadership course is offered for individual enrollment or please send me a contact form indicating that you are interested as an individual and we can discuss what other opportunities exist for this or similar content.
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Yes! The logistics of the program can be customized to best fit your operational needs. Please contact us using the Contact form to initiate a discussion and obtain a specific price quote. Thank you!
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Anyone who aspires to management or has recently landed in a managerial role will benefit. Experienced managers or Supervisors are also welcome and can use the course as a reminder or to plug gaps in their own skill base.
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Programs may be prepaid via credit card or can be committed to with a Purchase Order and signed contract. Payment terms are generally net30. Cancellations are allowed within 72 hours of enrollment.
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Yes. Please complete a contact form to initiate our discussion and obtain a customized price quote.
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The pricing here will be adjusted for the following factors - travel costs for the instructor, conference center and catering costs if the course is not taught at your facility, and appropriate taxes. Customization of the schedule and content is possible as well and the cost for such customization will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
Let’s Talk!
Please use the form below to contact me to initiate the coordination of a New Supervisor or Manager training for your team, at your site! I read every message and do my best to respond within 1 business day!