Special Encore Presentation: Eating The Elephant: A Skill Grid for Supervisors

What good is new knowledge if we don’t put it to use? Last week, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, walked through her seven-element model for shifting supervisors over to a new role: leaders of improvement—and not just expediters of logistics and ace firefighters. This week she shows you how to help supervisors learn that model and put it into action. She shares her Seven-Skill Grid—a tool by which supervisors can self-diagnose their current skill level as visual leaders and then target which skill they first want to strengthen. Knowledge of each of those supervisory leadership skills is essential. Of equal importance is the opportunity to practice that one new behavior with a buddy—build it, achieve it, and then pursue another. Eating the elephant one bite at a time. Production chiefs and managers help through teaching and coaching. Everyone gets a chance to stretch and contribute. Change is never easy, especially when oneself is the focus. Tune in and learn more.