Supervisor Pathways

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As an Auburn supervisor, you need to develop and improve your managerial skills on an ongoing basis as your career develops and you meet new managerial challenges.

Auburn University’s Supervisor Pathways is available to equip you with the skills and knowledge to manage a significant asset — its people. Pathways will help you become a problem solver, conflict manager, coach, and motivator.

You will learn to be effective, modeling excellence in communication, teamwork, collaboration, performance management, and demonstrating respect for Auburn’s diverse working community.

Click the infographic for additional information on 2020 enrollment numbers, or check out the highlights below. 

Supervisor Pathways is designed to provide Auburn University Supervisors with meaningful knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to be an effective manager and a developer of others.

The Pathways program includes a range of classes designed with AU in mind. Classes are free and open to all faculty and staff over a two-year schedule.

To “complete the path”, participants will:

• Attend the Supervisor Pathways full-day orientation which includes MG400: Management Fundamentals

• Complete 26 classes (1/3 of the program) (two-year minimum to complete)

• Participate in a year-long Community of Practice (1/3 of the program)

• Complete the Pathways Project (1/3 of the program) that will connect course work and learnings to operations or process improvement in the participant’s current position.

For a complete picture of the Supervisor Pathways Program, download our syllabus.

GOOD NEWS! Pathways certificate holders who apply for a supervisory role within Auburn University will receive six months of supervisory experience credit. This credit will be counted by Employment Services toward meeting minimum supervisory requirements, and by Compensation along with the hiring department for determining a salary if a position offer is extended.

Employees who aspire toward a supervisory role work toward Supervisor Pathways completion at their own pace and complete classes in any order.

There is no time limit for aspiring supervisors to complete the path.

Those interested in Supervisor Pathways should speak with their manager prior to completing our online application. Sessions will begin on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1. (Due to the delayed beginning of the spring semester, the Pathways session that was previously scheduled to begin on Jan. 11 will now begin on Feb. 1.)

Those enrolled will have two years to complete the program. 

To apply, select the date that you would prefer to begin. (You only need to select one date. If you are open to beginning on either date, you can denote that on the application form for the date that you selected.)

Admission decisions will be made in mid-November and applicants will be notified in late November.

Select a start date:

• Jan. 25, 2021 (FULL)

• Feb. 1, 2021 (FULL)

Click the image to watch a video message from AU Leadership

As an Auburn supervisor, you need to develop and improve your managerial skills on an ongoing basis as your career develops and you meet new managerial challenges.

Auburn University’s Supervisor Pathways is available to equip you with the skills and knowledge to manage a significant asset — its people. Pathways will help you become a problem solver, conflict manager, coach, and motivator.

You will learn to be effective, modeling excellence in communication, teamwork, collaboration, performance management, and demonstrating respect for Auburn’s diverse working community.

Click the infographic for additional information on 2020 enrollment numbers, or check out the highlights below. 

Supervisor Pathways is designed to provide Auburn University Supervisors with meaningful knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to be an effective manager and a developer of others.

The Pathways program includes a range of classes designed with AU in mind. Classes are free and open to all faculty and staff over a two-year schedule.

To “complete the path”, participants will:

• Attend the Supervisor Pathways full-day orientation which includes MG400: Management Fundamentals

• Complete 26 classes (1/3 of the program) (two-year minimum to complete)

• Participate in a year-long Community of Practice (1/3 of the program)

• Complete the Pathways Project (1/3 of the program) that will connect course work and learnings to operations or process improvement in the participant’s current position.

For a complete picture of the Supervisor Pathways Program, download our syllabus.

GOOD NEWS! Pathways certificate holders who apply for a supervisory role within Auburn University will receive six months of supervisory experience credit. This credit will be counted by Employment Services toward meeting minimum supervisory requirements, and by Compensation along with the hiring department for determining a salary if a position offer is extended.

Employees who aspire toward a supervisory role work toward Supervisor Pathways completion at their own pace and complete classes in any order.

There is no time limit for aspiring supervisors to complete the path.

Those interested in Supervisor Pathways should speak with their manager prior to completing our online application. Sessions will begin on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1. (Due to the delayed beginning of the spring semester, the Pathways session that was previously scheduled to begin on Jan. 11 will now begin on Feb. 1.)

Those enrolled will have two years to complete the program. 

To apply, select the date that you would prefer to begin. (You only need to select one date. If you are open to beginning on either date, you can denote that on the application form for the date that you selected.)

Admission decisions will be made in mid-November and applicants will be notified in late November.

Select a start date:

• Jan. 25, 2021 (FULL)

• Feb. 1, 2021 (FULL)