Delegating-Empowering People

Course Overview:

This session will address Barriers to Delegation: Why Managers Fail and Employees Resist; Contextualizing Delegation: The Nature of Work Relationships; The Delegation Process: Guidelines for Negotiating Task and Social Dimensions of Work; Special Issues in Delegation.

Who Should Attend:

  • Employees with supervisory responsibilities.
  • Employees who have recently been promoted into a supervisory role.
  • Employees working toward a goal of becoming a supervisor.
  • Members of self-directed work teams.
  • Supervisors that have never participated in a formal managerial leadership-training course.

Outcomes Expected:

Greater participation in decision making within the group. Greater commitment to unit and company goals. A greater overall sense of satisfaction.

Course Outline:

  • How to use delegating as a management tool for developing task efficiency, task effectiveness & personnel development
  • How to implement specific guidelines for enacting this management tool with both individuals and groups
  • To develop a set of guidelines which can be implemented readily and conveniently in the workplace
  • To explore ways managers can revitalize employees through task and social assessment of work
  • To develop specialized techniques for dealing with particular problems such as “reverse delegators” and delegation within culturally diverse workplaces

Course Provider/Instructor: UWSP - Rich Ilkka

Course Length: 1 Day

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