PeopleWork Supervisor
Core Essentials

The people leadership program that turns your best technical people into the leaders their teams actually want to follow.

38 video lessons. A structured Daily Workbook. 60 days. Under 10 minutes a day.

$995 per supervisor

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What is PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials?

It’s the people leadership program built specifically for frontline industrial supervisors in manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, utilities, and construction.

Your supervisors were promoted because they were great at the job. But nobody taught them how to lead people. So they’ve been figuring it out on their own — through trial and error, on your best employees.

PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials fixes that.

38 structured video lessons across 8 weeks. One video per day. One workbook page per day. Under 10 minutes a day. No classroom. No scheduling. No pulling anyone off the floor.

By the end of 60 days your supervisor has eliminated the two-year trial-and-error phase and knows exactly what the job really is — coach, mentor, guide.

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Your supervisors. Sixty days from now.

Respect.

The ability to rally their teams and build connection and trusting relationships.

Confidence.

Beyond technical skills — the people-confidence that earns a team’s respect.

Leadership.

The skills to lead their teams today and develop the people to lead the company tomorrow.

Teamwork.

Understanding what employees want and creating plans for individual team member development.

Empowerment.

Encouraging employees to become leaders without overwhelming them or burning them out.

Motivation.

Increase team motivation with positive reinforcement and celebrating small wins regularly.

Caring.

A leader who is empathetic and can communicate the work through the eyes of the employee.

Trust.

Specifically, a two-way trust that is shared and given in the relationship between supervisor and employee.

Safety.

More than just physical safety, but also mental and emotional safety where people feel comfortable.

It’s everything we cover in PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials.

How do PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials work?

When you purchase PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials, your supervisor gets instant access to everything they need to complete the program.

  • 38 structured video lessons across 7 modules — under 10 minutes each
  • The PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials Daily Workbook — one page per lesson, with a key message, reflection questions, and one specific action to take before the next video
  • Lifetime access – once purchased it’s theirs. Revisit any lesson any time.
  • No scheduling. No cohort. No waiting. They can start tomorrow morning.
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The Core Essentials

7 Modules — One New Idea Every Day for Eight Weeks.

Module 1
Know Your Role

  • Recall your best boss and the important question: are you being that example for someone else?
  • Technical skills are the skills employees think are dead last in importance. There are seven other skills that employees want you to have.
  • Being a supervisor is like being a baseball manager, but the baseball manager has a technique they use that can help supervisors build better teams.
  • The gunslinger supervisor does it all and is the only person allowed to deal with problems. It harms a team’s cohesiveness.
  • A look at what employees deserve from their supervisors and how employees take their cues from the leader.

Module 2
Become Premium-Brand

  • Why is it we choose one brand over another? One person over another? Did you know you have a brand already?
  • If your team had to describe you, would they describe you as a budget brand supervisor or premium-brand supervisor? Want to learn the difference?
  • Long driving road trips are the basis for building better engagement among your team members?
  • Road construction that backs up traffic proves the pitfalls of a lack of information and why people jump to conclusions from their worst fears and worst outcomes.
  • Review of what employees want and need from supervisors. And two words that can help them become more effective.

Module 3
Focus Down, Not Up

  • A supervisor’s greatest center of influence with their team starts by recognizing where supervisors are starting from. The team depends on supervisors to be there for them.
  • With so many of them, the competition to get noticed as a mediocre supervisor is tough. True leaders are rare and noticeable. Are you one?
  • You can find a correlation between a mediocre supervisor and staff turnover. People do not leave a job; they leave their supervisor. Here is how to fix it.
  • Most Hollywood movies follow a 7-step formula. The first two steps are most important for supervisors. It is in these first two steps that they can identify their purpose.
  • Will you take a step that can elevate your effectiveness? It’s easy to do once you create your three critical actions.

Module 4
Create Elite Teams

  • As a supervisor, if you don’t have certainty about your team, you will be afraid of what could happen. Elite teams have certainty.
  • What decisions will your team make when you are not in the room? Where there is certainty, there is trust.
  • Would it surprise you to learn that leadership is not as important as coaching skills? Coaching is what turns ordinary teams into elite teams.
  • This is the section that turns more heads. You have three choices of the kind of supervisor you can be. Only one of which can create an elite-level team.
  • Tools to creating your elite team. Standards instead of rules, identifying team strengths, and creating a mission against something.

Module 5
Selling the Safety Brand

  • The word “selling” may make you bristle. But don’t worry, it’s not what you think it is. We discuss why selling safety is necessary for supervisors.
  • In order to get a handle on how to better sell the safety program, we present the simple rule that will help you get better buy-in to your supervisory and safety.
  • Selling is not about jamming stuff down your people’s throats. Selling is about getting permission to help them be better and to help them get what they want.
  • Basketball coach Jack Donohue did this one thing every day to get buy-in to his coaching and buy-in to the team mission. And his players could not wait for it.
  • How can you motivate employees to be more enthusiastic about safety? It starts with identifying what benefits that employees get from safety.

Module 6
Motivating Your Team

  • Supervisors do not generally know much about what motivates people. But motivation of the crew is a supervisor’s responsibility.
  • Everyone is motivated to do something. Trouble is that employees who seem unmotivated are just not motivated by the same things you are.
  • “I’m only in it for the money.” There are six things far more important to employees than money? A half-million workers divulge what it is.
  • The things you should already be doing to make sure that you don’t undermine your own efforts to raise the level of motivation in your team.
  • Safety meetings are wasted and could be utilized so much better – in the same way a sports team uses their pre-game meetings to get buy-in to the mission.

Module 7
The Supervisor As Coach

  • When employees buy-in to safety, you do not need to chase after them. You can replace that time with coaching and mentoring, which is more satisfying.
  • No one does their best thinking under pressure. Certainty is tied to consistency. And consistency is one of the most admired traits for supervisors.
  • Your team buys into you because they trust and respect you. Because you listen to them, hear them and care about them. Conversations matter.
  • Nowhere does it state that safety meetings cannot be fun. Here are four things you should be talking about in safety meetings.
  • The final lesson. A commitment to becoming the CareFull supervisor your team deserves.

BONUS: Lifetime Access

Once you purchase PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials, it’s yours for life.

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Built for Industrial Operations Like Yours.

This Program Works at Every Stage of a Supervisor’s Career.

New Supervisors
Just promoted and figuring out the people side of the job for the first time. PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials gives them the foundation they need from day one — so they stop experimenting on their team and start leading with confidence.

Experienced Supervisors
Years in the role but never formally trained in people leadership. These are often the supervisors who think they’re doing fine. They benefit most — because they’ve never been shown what doing it right actually looks like.

Future Supervisors
Your best employees who have their eye on leadership one day. Give them the framework now so that when the time comes, they’re ready — and your leadership pipeline isn’t empty.

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What Companies Are Saying


  • Our company has been working with the PeopleWork programs for five years, and we have committed to three more. A testament to how much of a difference these programs have made for our people and culture.
    Billy Shearer
    New Braunfels Utilities, TX

  • Other outfits may teach frontline leadership skills, but none would have the message, the steps, the method of delivery, the professionalism, and charisma. This is the whole package.
    Kim Grant
    Paper Excellence, BC

  • I was able to work through quite a few of the things that this program provided us with and it helped me in being better planned and more prepared. And I’ve noticed much more engagement from my team.
    Beau Boughman
    CHS Refinery, KS

Who teaches PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials?

Every lesson is led by Kevin Burns — Amazon bestselling author of PeopleWork: The Human Touch in Workplace Safety and The CareFull Supervisor. Named by BookAuthority.org as the #4 Top Workplace Safety Book of All Time.

Kevin has spent over 30 years helping industrial companies develop the frontline supervisors who actually build safety culture. Everything in this program comes directly from that work.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How will I know if it’s working?

You’ll see it before you measure it. Your supervisor starts showing up differently — more present, more consistent, asking better questions instead of solving every problem themselves. Their team starts responding. Problems get solved on the floor instead of landing on your desk. The measurable results follow — improved retention, fewer safety incidents, better team performance. Most companies start seeing behavioral changes within the first two to three weeks.

Q: Do my supervisors really need formal training? They seem to be doing fine.

Probably — and “fine” is exactly the problem. Most supervisors who seem to be doing fine have never received any formal people leadership training. They don’t know what they don’t know. The supervisors who benefit most from this program are often the experienced ones. Not because they’re doing it wrong — but because they’ve never been shown what doing it right actually looks like. And the difference shows up every day in whether your best people stay or leave.

Q: What’s in the companion workbook?

Every lesson has its own workbook page. After watching the video your supervisor opens the workbook to find the key message from that lesson, a quote worth holding onto, a reflection question or two, and one specific action to take before the next video. It’s designed to turn watching into doing. That’s where the real learning happens.

Q: What if my supervisors resist training or think they don’t need it?

Frame it as giving them tools to become even better at what they already care about — connecting with their people. That you want them to gain the skills to not just manage their teams but lead them. That you want them to be able to move upward in this company one day and they’re going to need more leadership skills. Most supervisors want to succeed with their teams. They just need to know how.

Your supervisors are figuring out the people side of the job on their own right now.

Every day without the right skills is another day of trial and error — on your best employees.

Give them the foundation they need to become the leaders your operation deserves.

What’s included:

  • ✓ 38 structured video lessons across 7 modules
  • ✓ PeopleWork Supervisor Core Essentials Daily Workbook
  • ✓ Lifetime access

$995 per supervisor

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