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Employee & Organizational Development

Manager's Toolkit

Successful managers enhance their strengths, overcome their weaknesses, and continue to grow and learn when they know where to get answers to questions that come up every day. These versatile managers succeed because of themselves...not in spite of themselves. They do the right things at the right time. The Manager's Toolkit focuses on how to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities of supervisors and managers at the University of Tennessee.

Tools and Job Aids
List of job aids and tip sheets supervisors can use when specific issues must be addressed in the workplace. The tools provide refresher training for many of the management and supervision classes that Employee & Organizational Development (EOD) provides as part of its regular curriculum.

Subject Matter Experts
Contact information is provided for human resource professionals and others who can help supervisors with difficult questions regarding policies and procedures that affect faculty and staff.

Making a Difference: Supervisory Newsletter
Making a Difference is a supervisory newsletter produced by EOD that is available to all UT faculty and staff through campus mail and an email distribution list. Its content provides advice and techniques that will help supervisors manage their operations more efficiently and effectively.

Links of Interest
Online resources providing additional advice and techniques that will help supervisors manage their operations more efficiently and effectively (i.e., The FrontLine Supervisor Newsletter: State Employee Assistance Program).

Training Needs Assessment
This is a "test" link for a project currently under development.