Maximum Performance Training Workshops
Delegating and Supervising
As a manager do you often feel you are doing work that others could or should be doing?
Are you already working at full capacity?
Do you feel that your employees are your most valuable resource?
Would you like to be able to better utilize that valuable resource?
Delegation is one of the essential skills of effective management. Management has been defined as "getting results through others," and that requires effective delegation of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to your staff. Your ability to delegate is crucial to your advancement and to your success in business.
Many managers are unwilling or unable to delegate, and this greatly limits their advancement. Since the alternative to delegating is doing it yourself, these managers end up with so many responsibilities that they are unable to make their full contributions to their organizations.
Delegation enables you to expand your work from what you can do, to what you can control or manage. Delegation enables you to increase the quality and the quantity of your results. Your results will, more than any other single factor, determine your remuneration, your position, and your level of personal satisfaction in your work.
Managers today, are working at full capacity, with far more things to do than there exists time to do them. To get anything of importance done, a manager must delegate everything that can possibly be done by others. Fortunately, delegation is a skill that can be developed first by learning how to delegate and then by practicing regularly until you make it a habit, like driving a car.
Most managers have never been trained in delegation, and as with any new behavior, you will feel awkward at first. However, the more you practice delegation, the easier it becomes.
This one-day workshop will help you become excellent at delegating and supervising and greatly multiply your ability to make a significant contribution to your organization.
Workshop Topics Include:
- Helping employees grow
- Myths that block delegation
- Key result areas
- Creating clear standards of performance
- Management by objectives
- Keys to effective delegation
- The power of positive expectations
- Sources of power
- Creating feedback
- Avoiding reverse delegation
- Three leadership styles