SRDC Basic Supervisor Skills

On the left: The group of foremen and leadmen together with Mr. Andrew Escuban (first row, in pink collared shirt).

Last May 21, 2011, St. Rafael Development Corporation (SRDC) had its Basic Supervisor Skills seminar at the Conference Room which was attended by 25 participants both foremen and leadmen.

As the company is concentrated on putting God first on top of everything, the seminar began with a guiding verse from 1 Peter 5:2-4 which speaks of the three attitudes of: willingness; spontaneous, eagerness and enthusiasm and; meekness.

It was Andrew Escuban who facilitated the seminar. He discussed about the role of a supervisor and the responsibilities tied with his position. The group of foremen and leadmen was then divided into 2 groups for the workshop activity. The workshop was about house construction which was intended to surface the planning strategy, teamwork, unity and meeting of the time limit of each group. The materials needed were provided by SRDC. After 45 minutes, Escuban gave his observation regarding the character of each member during the making of houses and pointed out the good and bad points of their product.

Aside from the house construction activity, the participants also had a puzzled house game where the puzzles were pieces from scratch papers. It took 20 minutes for each group to keep their opinions and thoughts unsaid after they were able to break it when they started to put the pieces together.

Later on, snacks were served between breaks and lunch as well.

In the afternoon, he expounded more of his thoughts through giving them a lecture on the “Things Supervisors Do:”
1. Conducting basic management skills, decision making, problem solving, planning, delegation and meeting management
2. Organizing their department and team
3. Noticing the need for designing new job roles in the group
4. Training new employees
5. Managing the employees’ performance
6. Conforming to personnel policies and other internal regulation

He also provided the “Guidelines to Ensure Successful Planning and Implementation:”
1. Involve the right people
2. Write down the planning, information and communication widely
3. Goals and objective SMARTER:
Specific
Measurable
Acceptable
Realistic
Time-bound
Extending
Reward
4. Accountability
5. Note deviation and pre-plan accordingly
6. Evaluation
7. Recurring planning process
8. Nature of the process be compatible to nature of planners
9. Acknowledgment and celebration of result

He added some pointers on “Building Good Working Relationship:”
1. Respect and listen to employee
2. Helps set goals
3. Involve employees in evaluation
4. Communicate frequently
5. Delegate responsibility effectively
6. Find the right balance between being “one of the gang” and being the “person in-charge”
7. Relate to everyone on the work team equally
8. Be fair, compassionate and predictable

Lastly, he included the things to remember on “Effective Delegation:”
1. Delegate the whole task to one person
2. Select the right person
3. Clearly specify preferred results
4. Delegate responsibility and authority
5. Ask employee to summarize back to your impression
6. Get going, feedback
7. Maintain open line of communication
8. If you’re not satisfied don’t take the project back
9. Evaluate and reward performance

The seminar was dismissed after the giving of certificate of appreciation to Escuban and certificate of attendance to the attendees.*