This spring, Human Capital Services is excited to partner with a variety of academic units and key leaders at K-State to offer a renewed supervisory training experience. HCS currently offers Introduction to Supervision, a supervisory program that is primarily available to supervisors of University Support Staff (USS) employees. After February, that programming will be discontinued and will be replaced with updated programming offering more thorough and relevant content. K-State Supervisory Foundations will be available to any K-State supervisor and will be offered three to four times a year. The launch of this program will allow HCS to achieve a key K-State 2025 outcome of providing supervisory training for all employees by 2020. HCS has identified key content areas for the supervisory program as a result of the 2017 Professional Development Needs Assessment, research of peer and aspirational higher education institutions and a focus group of K-State supervisory stakeholders.
A tiered training approach offering three distinct pillars will allow K-State supervisors to achieve supervisory mastery through a variety of content areas over time. A pilot offering of K-State Supervisory Foundations Pillar I will be offered in March and April and programming will be launched in June. Employees are encouraged to visit the website for more information or send any questions to Learning and Development at learning-develop-hr@k-state.edu.