Effective delegation is one of the most valuable skills you can master. It reduces your workload and develops employee skills. Delegating prepares employees who work for you to be able to handle your responsibilities and simultaneously allows you to advance to other career opportunities within your organization. Delegation is often one of the hardest skills for a manager to master. However, the skill can be learned. This will explore many of the facets of delegation, including when to delegate and whom to delegate to. We will also go through the delegation process step by step and learn about techniques to overcome problems.

• Clearly identify how delegation fits into your job and how it can make you more successful
• Identify different ways of delegating tasks
• Use an eight-step process for effective delegation
• Give better instructions for better delegation results
• Recognize common delegation pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Monitor delegation results
• Give effective feedback

Course Content

Lessons

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: Why Delegate?

Session Three: What is Delegation?

Session Four: Pre-Assignment Review

Session Five: Picking the Right Person

Session Six: The Delegation Meeting

Session Seven: Putting it into Practice

Session Eight: Giving Instructions

Session Nine: Monitoring Delegation

Session Ten: Practicing Delegation

Session Eleven: Giving Feedback

Session Twelve: Becoming a Good Delegator