Delegation Skills for Managers & Supervisors

Do the supervisors and managers in your organization feel overwhelmed with too much work and not enough resources?

It’s possible that they are overlooking a resource that is available to them with a little work and imagination: other people! While most managers and supervisors know they can’t get it all done themselves, many have not learned the delegation skills they need to make this process work.

• This is the seminar for them! It’s a powerful and practical one-day seminar, and it will help your managers and supervisors learn how to:
• Give instructions that are understood the first time!
• Get consistent high performance on every delegated task.
• Identify and use everyone’s strengths — instead of overloading the most capable subordinates.
• Choose the right person for the job — every time.
• Assess the most common barriers to delegation — and see if any apply to themselves

The Manager’s Role and Delegation

• Review your primary objectives and goals — pinpoint your strongest and weakest points.
• Management accountability: How to shoulder responsibility for work performed by others — and be sure everyone understands the extent of their responsibility.
• What is real authority? Learn techniques to develop management authority versus management involvement.

The Delegation Advantage

• Find out how to allocate your time and energy resources more efficiently toward your management responsibilities.
• Use key practices to increase employee involvement — and make the delegation process easier for you and your employees.

Barriers to Effective Delegation

• Are you hindering your own progress? View 4 negative attitudes you must overcome in order to become a “delegating manager”.
• Learn how to delegate efficiently when your employees are overloaded, without creating resentment and additional stress.
• Use unique time-saving tips for training and instruction of “delegates”.

Planning that Guarantees Delegation Success 

• A practical step-by-step system to determine what to delegate.
• Expand your resources by using consultants, temporaries and suppliers to 
• greatest advantage!
• Give specific instructions that are not misinterpreted — save time and energy!
• 5 steps to take when employees disagree with you: resolve differences, reduce (employee) frustration and still get the work done your way.
• Harness the most overlooked communication skill: the art of listening.

Motivating and Coaching for Outstanding Results

• Use the powerful benefit formula to motivate even “difficult” employees.
• Discover 8 non-monetary rewards that motivate employees to do their best.
• Encourage independence: how to drive employees to become more self-sufficient and increase their decision-making ability.

Automatically Managing or Monitoring Delegated Work

• Use a dynamic quality-control program for delegated tasks and feel confident the work will be done the right way.
• Expert pointers to help you maintain control of delegated tasks and projects.

How to Troubleshoot and Spot Traps

• What to do when an employee “resists” your efforts to delegate.
• Ensure that work done by others meets your own high standards by determining and maintaining work standards.

All your managers and supervisors who want to gain control of their time, while maximizing staff productivity, quality and morale.