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Course Details
Course Name: Management Skills for Supervisors
Course Code: EO0103WC25
Date of Most Recent Offering: March 5 & 6, 2025
Course Overview
This two-day online program will strengthen your management and leadership skills. Attendees will complete a self-assessment of their management style that will clearly define their management strengths and points for improvement.
Who Should Attend?
This class is a great source of information for anyone who wants to learn effective management and leadership skills for any industry or occupation. Past participants have included:
- Building and Grounds Supervisors
- Clean Communities Coordinators
- Clinician Supervisors
- DPW Directors
- Foremen
- Lab Technicians
- Maintenance Managers
- Project Coordinators
- Office Managers
- Parks and Recreation Supervisors
- Recycling Coordinators
- Research Project Coordinators
- Sewage Plant Superintendents
- Township Administrators
- Warehouse Supervisors
- Water and Wastewater Operators
Meet Your Instructors
Ned Lipman

Ned served as the Director of Continuing Professional Education at Rutgers University’s New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station for more than 35 years. He continues to work with the office as a part-time lecturer. Ned enjoys his role as a supplier of management instruction to the many audiences which Rutgers serves and is a frequent lecturer throughout New Jersey, presenting subjects relating to organizational leadership and marketing.
Terry Tomsky

Terry has served as one of OCPE’s most valued and popular instructors for more than thirty years. While employed as a Senior Leadership and Mechanical Trainer for PSE&G’s Production Training Center, he crafted a parallel training career with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES)/Rutgers University Office of Continuing Professional Education (OCPE). Teaching programs in topics ranging from workplace safety to motor controls, O & M of pumps, blueprint reading – and this extremely popular Management Skills for Supervisors workshop – Terry’s courses provide useful, timely real-world information that resonates and stays with attendees.
Student Reviews
Most useful part of the course: “The focus on understanding your own characteristics to better understand others and be an effective leader.”
– Past Participant
“Ned and Terry are so knowledgeable and I love the community of experience in the room.”
– Past Participant
“I will share many of the slides and techniques with my supervisors.”
– Past Participant
Continuing Education Credits
The most recent offering of Management Skills for Supervisors was approved for 1.2 Rutgers CEUs (12 contact hours) as well as the following credits from professional organizations. We will reapply for similar credits the next time the course runs, but we cannot guarantee credit approval for future offerings.
New Jersey
NJ Certified Public Works Managers (CPWM): 6 Management Contact Hours
NJ Certified Recycling Professionals (CRP): 12 Classroom Recertification Credits
NJ Drinking Water and Wastewater Operators: 12 TCHs (Approval #01-010111-30)
NJ Health Officers and Registered Environmental Health Specialists (HO/REHS): Rutgers University, NJAES, Office of Continuing Professional Education has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Health as a provider of NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs). Participants who complete this education program will be awarded 11.25 NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs).
Pennsylvania
PA Drinking Water and Wastewater Operators: 12 Recertification Hours
Program Questions? We’re Here to Help!
If you have any questions about Management Skills for Supervisors, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Administrative Assistant: Judith Joshua
848-932-7483
judith.joshua@rutgers.edu
For registration assistance, please contact our Registration Department at 848-932-9271, option 2 or email registration@njaes.rutgers.edu.