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Supervisors are essential to shaping the university’s thriving workplace culture and supporting the success of their teams. The Supervisor Toolbox brings together practical tools, guides, and resources designed to help you navigate the day-to-day responsibilities of supervision. Use this toolbox to meet your supervisory needs, address challenges, and support your team.
Hiring Guide
A comprehensive guide covering every step of the hiring process—including search, interview, and selection—with sample job descriptions, interview questions, communication templates, and more.
Onboarding Guide
Go-to guide for essential onboarding resources, covering the basics of where faculty or staff need to get started, including tools, benefits, and ways to connect and grow.
Knowledge Transfer Tool
A UHR resource to help outgoing employees and supervisors capture key knowledge and ensure a smooth handoff.
Change Management
Resources to help you understand the change management process, clarify key roles, and support employees through organizational change.
Navigating Conflict
Tools and resources to help you build confidence in addressing conflict, support others through it, understand the conflict resolution processes, and connect with university support services.
Support for Supervisors
Supervisors may opt to consult with EAP when employees' work performance is affected or when there are concerns about employees' mental health.
Conducting Stay Interviews
Learn why stay interviews matter, when to conduct them, how to prepare, and best practices for meaningful conversations that support employee engagement and retention.
Rewarding & Recognizing Your Employees
This toolkit provides supervisors with ideas and resources so you can confidently implement effective recognition strategies while leading your team.
Supporting Your Employee's Career Path
Supervisors can explore career classifications and job descriptions to guide employees in their career development.
Supporting Workplace Flexibility
A series of webpages outlining workplace flexibility options, guidelines, and resources to help supervisors support flexible work arrangements.
Supporting Your Employee's Well-being
A library of well-being resources supervisors can explore and filter to support the specific needs of their employees.
Conducting Performance Reviews
A series of performance management tools covering goal setting, supervisor and employee roles, the review process, and more to support effective performance conversations.
Addressing Performance Concerns
A set of resources to help supervisors respond to concerning patterns of performance.
Building a High-Performing Team
See 5 areas with specific actions to help you create an environment where your team can thrive.