Building Staff Satisfaction and Belonging Through Leadership Training Cohorts
Employee job satisfaction and feelings of belonging positively contribute to employee retention. Supportive supervisors can increase employees' feelings of belonging and job satisfaction, but in "lean" organizations, bandwidth for supervisor trainings is often limited. This session will explore how a VP of Advancement (and doctoral candidate in organizational leadership) partnered with colleagues across campus to implement leadership trainings for the university's supervisory staff that focused on building skills and community through small-group cohort discussions. The training led to increased job satisfaction for supervisors. It also increased belonging and satisfaction in their direct reports, as evidenced in post-workshop surveys and interviews in the presenter's doctoral research.