Delegating Effectively

Prerequisites: The user must be generally able to navigate through a GUI application by clicking buttons and selecting menu items.

Delegating Effectively focuses on interpersonal skills emphasizing communication and improvement of management skills by using behavior modeling. The audiences for this course are team leaders, supervisors, and first-line managers.

For maximum benefit, it is recommended that students first experience the two foundation modules, Fundamental Skills of Managing and Fundamental Skills of Communicating, prior to taking this course.

Delegating effectively is one of the best ways to be effective as a leader. If you don't learn to delegate, you'll never have the time or energy it takes to do your own job and to help your team.

A leader needs to work with team members to help them develop the skills and experience they need to move forward. When people are given authority, responsibility and accountability, they have an opportunity to grow.

The Delegating Effectively course gives you valuable insights into and practice of the "Three W's" of effective delegation:

• When should team leaders delegate?
• Whom should they delegate to?
• And what explanation should they give to team members?

The course also shows you how to use delegation as a motivational tool.

Upon successful conclusion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Understand the importance of effective delegation as well as the problems associated with the lack of delegating or delegating poorly.
• Communicate both the need for and the "why" of every delegated assignment and task.
• Use delegation as a powerful motivational tool.
• Use delegation to improve your team members' skills and expand their horizons on the job.
• Encourage team member participation and involvement through proper delegating methods.
• Specify a team member's responsibility for a delegated task as well as establish a team member's authority for the task with those affected.
• Develop a plan to monitor progress through feedback and review.

Note: All web based training courses are Y2K (Year 2000) compliant.