Setting clear expectations for your trades team helps avoid expensive errors and rework, encourages people to speak up before small problems become big ones, and keeps your team engaged and empowered to do their best work.
Designed for technical tradespeople, the Trade Supervisor Essentials workshop gives participants the coaching, mentoring and communication skills to set expectations clearly from the outset, have the conversations, formal and informal, that actually shift performance, and build a team that's engaged, confident, and less likely to walk.
Delivery Format
MiTraining can deliver Trade Supervisor Essentials as either:
- A half-day face-to-face workshop
- A full-day face-to-face workshop
Delivery can be onsite at your premises or at an arranged venue.
A minimum of six participants is required per delivery.
To discuss your specific requirements for the Trade Supervisor Essentials workshop, contact MiTraining today.
Course Content
The Trade Supervisor Essentials workshop is designed specifically for technical tradespeople, including electricians, plumbers, fitters and other trade professionals stepping into a supervisory role for the first time, often straight off the tools.
Participants will develop the skills and confidence required to coach, mentor, supervise and support staff effectively.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of Trade Supervisor Essentials, participants will be able to:
- Understand communication styles: yours and those of your team.
- Understand and apply coaching, mentoring, and supervisory skills effectively.
- Conduct meaningful, constructive performance conversations and informal check-ins.
- Think critically about how to deliver feedback, tease out individual understanding of tasks and behavioural expectations.
- Build team performance through informal coaching and on-the-job feedback.
Meet Our Instructor
Emily Douglass
Emily is an endorsed organisational psychologist with a passion for training delivery. Emily has previously served in the military, and her core areas of work are leadership growth, building resilience, and developing teams. She supports organisations that are willing to invest in the prevention of psychological harm in the workplace.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Who is Trade Supervisor Essentials for?
This workshop is designed for technical tradespeople who are moving into a supervisory role, or who are already supervising a team and want to build stronger coaching, mentoring and communication skills.
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What's the difference between the half-day and full-day options?
The full-day option includes more time for discussion, practice, and applying the skills to real scenarios from your workplace.
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Why is it important to set clear expectations with your team?
When expectations aren't clear, people fill the gaps with their own assumptions about what's expected. That's how avoidable mistakes, rework and safety issues creep in.
Trade Supervisor Essentials gives supervisors practical tools to communicate expectations clearly from day one, so the whole team knows what "good" looks like before the job starts.
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What is psychological safety, and why does it matter for trade teams?
Psychological safety is a team's confidence that they can ask questions, flag mistakes, or raise concerns without being judged for it. On the tools, that matters. The earlier a problem or hazard gets raised, the cheaper and safer it is to fix.
Trade Supervisor Essentials helps supervisors build this kind of trust through the way they run everyday conversations, from formal check-ins to quick chats on the job.
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Does employee engagement reduce staff turnover?
In a trades business, recruiting and training a replacement costs real time and money. Teams that feel supported and clear on what's expected of them are far more likely to stick around.
Trade Supervisor Essentials builds the coaching, and feedback skills supervisors need to keep their teams engaged and turnover low.
