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

“The trainer took lots of time to answer our individual questions and had lots of good examples for us to practice and work through which really helped put theory into practice. The examples made understanding much easier and meant the course wasn#39t too content heavy and nice and interactive.”
E.F., Egger, Excel Level 2
“Was able to ask the questions I had and practice the skills as we learned. Very comfortable atmosphere, approachable trainer and informative content. Learned some really great new skills! Really feel I understand the full breadth of possibilities in PowerPoint.”
M.M., Ryder Architecture, PowerPoint Essentials

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“Allocating resources to tasks. Linking tasks and balancing workload”
P.M., Teesside Gas and Liquids, Microsoft Project Essentials

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Make presentations more visual, interesting...feel better equipped to create better presentations”
J.B., Tyne and Wear Pension Fund, PowerPoint Essentials
“The course flew by and the course convenor was very good at their job. Will definitely be using ITTS courses in the future.”
N.B., Dcc, Excel Business Intelligence using Excel Power Tools
“All informative, but pivot tables extremely useful”
G.B., The Labour Party, Excel Level 3

Any other comments or recommendations

“Great use of workshop function rather than a 39talked at session39 and good use of relating to own data”
J.C., Access Advanced Database Design
“Very good course”
B.S., Adler and Allan Ltd, Microsoft Project Essentials

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