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10/22/2026

A Tale of Two Supervisors

It was a dark and stormy Monday. Two people got promoted to supervisor the same week. Neither asked for it. Both said yes.

The first one got a new title, a parking spot, and nothing else. No training. Just "you'll figure it out."

The haunting started small. A text at 9 PM to an hourly employee that turned into unpaid overtime. A "quick chat" about attendance that was really about a medical condition. A top performer who asked for help twice and got told "you've got this."

Then the ghosts of decisions past started showing up in the HR office. A complaint. A resignation. A letter from an attorney. Nobody could remember what was said in that meeting, because nobody wrote it down.

By Halloween, the team had thinned to a skeleton crew.

The second supervisor got the same title and the same parking spot. The difference is that someone sent her to training. Twelve Wednesdays at noon. Thirty minutes, lunch at her desk.

So when the 9 PM text crossed her mind, she waited until morning. When the attendance conversation drifted somewhere it should not go, she stopped and called HR. When her best employee started slipping, she had the hard conversation early and wrote down what they agreed on.

Her team is still her team. Nobody is haunting anybody.

Same company. Same week. Same lack of experience on day one. The only thing that changed the ending was training that got applied.

Supervisors are the ex*****on layer of leadership. Every policy, every initiative, every legal obligation lands through them. Sending someone into that job without preparation is the real horror story.

If you have a new supervisor, or one who has been "figuring it out" for a while, the next Bellwether Applied Learning supervisor series, High Noon Ramrod, starts January 13. Twelve Wednesdays at noon.

Registration opens in November at crowdcast.io/. Watch this space.

Don't let your supervisors go in unprepared. That's how you end up with a skeleton crew.

10/20/2026

10/20/2026

That’s a wrap on our inaugural Summer School for Supervisors!

Twelve lunchtime sessions on practical topics supervisors face every week: the legal landscape, interviewing, delegation, difficult conversations, documentation, performance reviews, and partnering with HR. Good topics at a good time of day, built so people could actually use what they learned.

The feedback has been the best part. Supervisors told me they used the tools at work the same week. Their HR folks noticed too, and they told me the conversations coming to their desks looked different. That’s the whole point. Being good at the work isn’t the same as being prepared to supervise people, and that’s the gap I wanted to help close.

So we’re doing it again, with a little more edutainment this time. Introducing High Noon Ramrod: A Fistful of Practical Skills for Supervisors.

On a cattle drive, the ramrod was the trail boss. That’s the person responsible for keeping the herd moving, the crew working together, and everybody arriving in one piece. Sounds a lot like a supervisor to me.

🤠 12 weekly sessions, Wednesdays at noon Eastern🤠 Starts January 13, 2027 and wraps March 31🤠 Live and virtual on Crowdcast🤠 Registration opens November 1

Topics like:📍 Law of the Land: what every supervisor needs to know about employment law📍Know Your Outfit: understanding your team and its culture📍 You Can’t Ride Every Horse: delegating without dropping the reins📍 The Conversation at High Noon: having difficult conversations before they become formal problems📍 Keep a Good Trail Log: documentation that protects everyone📍 Calling in the Cavalry: knowing when and how to partner with HR

If you’re in HR and planning your 2027 training budget right now, this is your chance to get your supervisors’ development on the calendar before the year gets away from you. Round up your supervisors and send them my way.

Follow my Crowdcast channel so you’ll know the minute registration opens. Link is in the comments.

Every employee deserves a good leader. And every supervisor deserves the chance to become one.

10/05/2026

Wining up Summer School for Supervisors! Here's up coming public training. All classes are open for tailored training for your team!

09/16/2026

It is on topic however, it is about the skill you need to use the tool. Join me. Grab your lunch. We will have 15 minutes for questions afterward. Sign up. No funnt business, no credit card..just a name and an email for you can get in when the session starts!

This free, live 30-minute keynote about why critical thinking matters even more in an AI-powered workplace—and why smart, experienced people can still miss what is right in front of them.

The Question Your AI Will Never Ask You
AI can generate answers, summarize information, identify patterns, and help us move faster. But speed is not judgment.

The quality of what AI gives you depends heavily on what you notice, what you question, and what you may be assuming without realizing it. AI can respond to the question you enter. It cannot reliably stop you and ask whether you are solving the right problem in the first place. That requires human judgment.

You’ll explore:
Why using AI well requires more—not less—critical thinking
How speed and confidence can disguise weak reasoning
Why the first question is not always the right question
How assumptions, experience, and blind spots shape what we ask AI
A practical way to pause, challenge your thinking, and improve your decisions
This is not a session about resisting AI. It is about becoming a better thinker while using it.

The keynote is designed for , professionals, , owners, and other decision-makers who want to use AI thoughtfully without surrendering their judgment.

Register here to learn why critical thinking matters even more in an AI-powered workplace—and why smart, experienced people can still miss what is right in front of them.

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Register now for The Question Your AI Will Never Ask You: A FREE live keynote on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 23, 2026, 01:00 PM EDT.

09/08/2026

Join me on Sept 23rd for 30 minutes!