Training course

Delegation - The Art of Effective Delegation

Being able to let go and delegate tasks to others can be one of the hardest managerial responsibilities. The temptation is just to do it yourself – right? You think it will be quicker after all you're likely to do a much better and quicker job and you simply haven’t got the time to show someone else.

Wrong - lack of delegation will lead to you slowly drowning in work. Tasks will become half-finished or poorly executed and you will end up with a disgruntled and demotivated team who are crying out to take on more responsibility.

This one-day course will give you the confidence to let go of tasks without losing control and give you the skills to use delegation as a motivational tool to increase performance. Understand your own management styles to develop the potential of your staff, yourself and ultimately your organisation.

The course will be participatory and will include self-analysis tools, case studies and group work.

  • 1 Day
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Prerequisites

  • No previous knowledge is required

Included

  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course content Back to top

  1. Delegation, Empowerment and Motivation
    Introduction to Delegation
    Why delegate?
    What does delegation mean?
    What cannot be delegated and why?
    Advantages and disadvantages.
  2. Introduction to Situational Leadership
    Delegating tasks to your team – a planned approach
    Matching your delegation style to suit individuals
    Understanding delegates’ expectations
    Coaching style
  3. The Delegation Process
    Steps to effective delegation
    Planning and controlling work
    Minimising the risk
    Who has got the authority?
    Setting targets
    Monitoring progress and giving feedback
  4. Personal Development
    What can you do immediately on return to the workplace?
    How will you use your personal wealth of skills and experience to increase your confidence and effectiveness

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.
  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.

What delegates say Back to top

“My forms will look professional going forward”
G.B., Word Essentials
“Auto Correct this will really help me.”
S.G., Burnetts Solicitors, Word Working with Advanced Features and Complex Documents

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Revisit existing reports and review some of the summaries so that I improve the new reports I#39m writing to make a coherent and concise summary thats to the point”
E.W., Px Group, Business Writing Skills
“I thought the trainer was very patient and helped the less able candidates on our course ie me! Thank you.”
C.L., South Tyneside & Sunderland Nhsft, Excel Level 2

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“All was really useful as never used ChatGPT before”
B.C., ChatGPT Essentials
“Really helpful training session”
C., V4 Services Ltd, Microsoft Teams in Office 365 Essentials
“All was useful and very well explained”
L.O., Labour Party, Excel Level 2
“I would really recommend this training to people that use Excel and want to make their life a bit easier.”
S.A., Asw Assurance, Excel Level 2

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