Sailors and civilians stationed aboard Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC) participated in a week-long leadership workshop on how to become better leaders and supervisors. The training is specifically tailored for the Navy and focuses on the Commander, Navy Installations Command's (CNIC) guiding principles. Those principles place emphasis on taking customer service to the next level, being brilliant on the basics, making smart business decisions, living a culture of continuous improvement, and represent Navy to the surrounding community. "The 'Building Leadership' supports CNIC's Human Capital Strategy to enable and sustain warfighter readiness," said Lt. Luis Ortiz, workforce development officer at Navy Region Southeast (NRSE). "Through CNIC, NRSE received training opportunities that offers tools to supervisors and leaders to better support the CNIC guiding principles." This leadership training is one of many, and acts as a building block for other courses offered by CNIC. They act as guidance from higher headquarters on interactions between supervisors and employees. "The workshops chosen align directly with the competencies supervisors need to excel," said Karen Mittendorf, training performance consultant and master trainer with Achieve Global. "The participants learn more about their own strengths and areas of challenge; they learn effective coaching discussions with their teams with the dual goal of accomplishing the mission and connecting with the individuals." The Tampa-based Achieve Global provides skills training, employee engagement and leadership development, and has been offering this course for CNIC since mid-2016. Participants were shown examples of ideal leadership, how to be a successful supervisory through motivation, employee recognition and shaping them for success. "Supervisors have direct contact with their employees each day," added Ortiz. That makes them the most influential person who can positively or negatively impact employee performance, retention and development," said Ortiz. "The training is a paradigm shift in both thinking and communicating with those whom we supervise in the Navy," said Mineman 1st Class Alex Hollyfield, armory leading petty officer aboard NSA PC and class participant. It's a shift in the manner of communication. "The training showed us ways to guide personnel by communicating the commands needs and allowing them to use their own skills to achieve the goal." The training concluded with class presentations to the participant's supervisors, and covered topics that were taught throughout the course; hallmarks of a supervisor, conducting a delegation conversation, shaping a motivational workplace, giving need-based feedback, realizing talent in others, and awards and recognition. NRSE is the second region under CNIC to conduct this training. Installations interested in holding this type of training should have their installation program integrator reach out to their respective regional workforce development officer to coordinate training dates. For more information on NSA PC please visit our website at https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nsa_panama_city.html and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NSAPC.