FLORIDA SUPERVISORS ACADEMY
June 28 - July 3, 2009: Holiday Inn Select - UCF Hotel, Orlando

The 32nd annual session of the Florida Supervisors Academy (FSA) will be held at the Holiday Inn Select - UCF Hotel, in Orlando. This location offers many advantages and gives attendees the convenience of sleeping in a hotel room (single occupancy), and attending classes in the same facility. This change in venue abolishes the need for dorm rooms and daily strolls across the University of Central Florida campus on rainy afternoons. You will definitely enjoy the experience and be glad you attended this academy.

The Florida Supervisors Academy is intended to provide front-line supervisors with an opportunity to increase their supervisory skills and to make them more effective leaders and better managers. The Academy is designed to improve and to develop management skills including leadership principles, employee motivation, and employee relations management.

The program is a one year course with a minimum of 34 classroom hours. The curriculum, instructional methods, and text material is reviewed each year to be sure that each topic is current and pertinent.The week at the Florida Supervisors Academy begins on Sunday afternoon with registration, where students will receive their notebook, namebadge, and check into the hotel.

The first official function after registration is orientation, followed by the opening banquet. This gives the students a brief overview of what to expect in the coming week, and it allows them to get to know one another better.

Classes begin bright and early at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning and cover a wide range of topics pertinent and relevant to the challenges faced by supervisors of any experience level.

Students are separated into "Case Study" teams and asked to present a typical supervisory "challenge" they might face back at the bank. After reviewing thier chosen situation, each team acts out the solution in a short skit, using created scripts, and whatever props they can think of, and find. After it's all said and done, a winning case study team emerges from the rest of the pack, to receive their prize. In 2008, "The Best Bank Two" team made the winning presentation and are pictured below from left to right:

Randi Goff, Farmers & Merchants Bank, Monticello
Tanja Golden, Gulfstate Community Bank, Carrabelle
Jake Schoolfield, The Bank of Tampa, Tampa
Cery Logeman, Perkins State Bank, Inglis
Georgia Gunn, Premier Bank, Tallahassee

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The Florida Supervisors Academy
2008 Graduating Class

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The Florida Supervisors Academy could not operate without the dedicated industry professionals that make up our committee. These bankers contribute their talents, skills, knowledge, expertise, and time to assure that this academy is pertinent, timely and gives the attending students the tools needed to become assets to their institutions.

2008-09 Florida Supervisors Academy Committee
(from left to right)
Carmen Danner, Human Resource Director, Bank of Florida Corp, Naples
Jeffrey Turner, VP/Dir. of Training & Employee Dev., TIB Bank, Ft. Myers
Jennifer Stevens , S.V.P./HR Marketing Dir, The Bank of Commerce, Sarasota

The next session of the Florida Supervisors Academy is scheduled to be held on June 28- July 3, 2009, at the Holiday Inn Select - UCF Hotel, in Orlando. For additional information and registration forms please email Yvette Downes at the FBA Education Department or contact her by telephone at (850) 224-2265.