Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors:
Work and Personal Life
TRAINING FEATURES
Supervisors play a crucial role in implementing both formal and informal work-life policies. This course provides supervisors with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to support employees’ work and non-work demands, leading to improved health, well-being, and organizational outcomes through the use of evidence-based strategies that are easy to implement. Pressures employees face in both their personal and work lives can create stress that impacts the employee and the workplace. This evidence-based training includes:
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FREE, self-paced, online course that takes less than 60 minutes to complete
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Downloadable tools and resources for those who want to learn more
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Two-week behavior tracking tool designed to reinforce learning
Customizing this training to work with a police agency worked very well. The content offers common-sense, straightforward strategies that work. The challenges of policing are many, including high stress and rigid schedules. Still, the training provided solutions that work in this setting, and officers reported lower intention of quitting and improved perceptions of supervisor support. We are pleased to have implemented this high-impact solution. It helped us improve workplace culture, reduce employee stress, and retain our workforce.
Jenn Rineer, PhD
Director, Workforce Wellbeing & Effectiveness Program
Center for Public Safety & Resilience
RTI International
This training addresses some important workplace concerns
The blurring of lines between work and personal time, care giving responsibilities for children and an aging extended family members, long commute times, and non-standard work schedules are features of today’s workforce. Attending to work and non-work responsibilities can contribute to worker stress that can negatively affect health, safety, and wellbeing for workers and workplaces.
A barrier to addressing work/personal demands is that most employees work for smaller and medium-sized firms that do not have formal work-life policies, leaving most work-life/family flexibility practices, including family and sick leave, to be influenced by direct supervisors.
This evidence-based training will help supervisors proactively support workers’ work and non-work lives by:
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Recognizing the pressures of personal and work responsibilities.
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Identifying how these pressures can impact the employee and the workplace.
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Understanding how work/life conflicts surface for workers in a variety of ways.
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Helping supervisors learn simple evidence-based strategies that play a role in alleviating work and personal life stress.
In partnership with Purdue University, the training was co-developed by scholars in occupational health psychology, management, and organizational behavior.
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Associate Director of Applied Research and Professor at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University
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Director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, one of 10 centers of excellence in Total Worker Health® funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
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Professor Emerita, Portland State University
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2025-2026 VMWare Women’s Leadership Lab CASBS Fellow, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Distinguished Family Scholar, Center for Families, Purdue University
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Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management Emerita, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
Accessing the Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Training
Learners can access the training through the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU Learning Management System. This system is supported by Articulate Reach 360.
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3. If you do not complete the full training in one sitting, you can use the link provided to return to the training at your convenience.
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This training was funded via a NIH (National Institute of Health) STTR (Start Up Technology Research Grant #2R42AG060347-02A1 to Dr. Ellen Ernst Kossek and Dr. Leslie B. Hammer and was evaluated as part of a study via NIH Clinical Trial ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05080426.