Rocky Mountain Section AWWA/WEA Joint Supervisory Leadership Certification Program

As more and more baby-boomers retire, there are increasing opportunities for qualified candidates to fill the management and supervisor positions that are being vacated. Many organizations wait until a manager is well into middle management or above before providing leadership training, if they provide it at all. Workers are promoted into management positions because they have good technical skills, not because they are good with people or have good supervisory potential. The result is that by the time a front-line supervisor is exposed to leadership training they have developed many bad habits.This situation led the Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association along with the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Water Works Association to apply for and receive grant funding to create a Supervisor Leadership Certificate Program designed to provide front-line supervisory training. It’s designed to provide new managers and supervisors with the people skills they are so often missing.