Leadership & Assertive Supervision

Lead with a servant leadership mindset to guide and develop your team. Show that employees follow leaders who project confidence, competence, and professional presence through assertive leadership when needed.

Identify essential leadership traits such as honesty, fairness, courage, and integrity. Compare these with management skills like budgeting, scheduling, and policy knowledge.

Recognize your positional and personal power as a leader and cultivate integrity, competence, and action. Leverage informal leaders and transparent communication to drive responsible supervision and accountability.

Own responsibility and hold leaders accountable by delivering truth to power, because the buck stops with you. Lead, guide, and develop your staff, and address problem employees or step down.

Recognize employees' unique strengths and assign them to roles that fit. Raise the bar, model the rules, lead with fairness, and empower teams with authority to solve problems.

Develop confident leadership by learning to be responsive and responsible, informed by Herb Brooks's example and practical decision making. Practice honesty, accountability, and developing your team.

Lead with strength and discipline, earn respect through fair, timely decisions and active listening, deliver tough news, and balance friendship with organizational duties.

Practice honest leadership by telling the truth, giving clear feedback, and using management by walking around to know issues, model professionalism, and develop your team.

Lead with timely decisions by anticipating problems, planning solutions, and making informed, legal, moral, and ethical choices that protect your team, uphold authority, and keep operations on track.