Delegation
- 5 Courses | 1h 35m 52s
- 8 Books | 8h 11m
- 2 Audiobooks | 2h 32m 21s
The ability to delegate is essential for effective team management. Explore further to learn how to delegate like a pro. Learn how to share responsibility and give power to others by successfully delegating tasks.
GETTING STARTED
Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager
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3m 21s
COURSES INCLUDED
Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager
Understanding the essential responsibilities you have when directing and delegating to others, and the practices you should employ in order to meet those responsibilities, will lead to you fulfilling your duties and realizing the potential of your entire team. This course provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for your direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques you need to carry through with delegation. Finally, the course details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.
7 videos |
21m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Choosing and Preparing Your Delegate
As a manager, it's all too easy to become inundated with various demands on your time, such as meetings, reports, and e-mails. To manage your time more effectively, you'll need to delegate some of your tasks. Delegating work not only frees you up for other tasks, it also motivates your team by showing that you trust them with key responsibilities. In this course, you'll learn about different delegation styles and fundamentals. You'll explore methods for preparing and launching a delegation. And you'll also learn how to educate, direct, and authorize delegates appropriately.
7 videos |
19m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Getting What You Expect from Your Delegate
To delegate tasks and responsibilities successfully, you'll need to do a lot more than just choose someone to hand out assignments to; that is only the first step. To achieve good delegation results, you'll also need to provide the right level of supervision, feedback, and encouragement. In this course, you'll learn how to direct and motivate your delegates so they can take on new responsibilities with confidence. You'll explore how to identify and avoid engaging in negative or demotivating behaviors. You'll also learn how to respond when things go wrong and provide constructive criticism.
6 videos |
15m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Taking Your Team to the Next Level with Delegation
An effective delegation process is one where you've picked the right people, supervised and motivated them appropriately, and provided constructive feedback to ensure the delegated tasks are completed successfully. But that doesn't necessarily mean the delegation process should stop there. Even though you may have already met your objectives, you can still take your team to the next level through further delegation. In this course, you'll learn about the different levels of responsibility you can delegate to further team development. You'll explore how to direct and develop your team to overcome common delegation risks. And you'll also learn how to assess and improve your delegation skills.
6 videos |
14m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Unlocking the Power of Upward Delegation
Excelling professionally requires more than individual efforts. It demands a strategic partnership with your manager, where upward delegation becomes a catalyst for shared success. By managing and delegating up, you can tap into your managers' expertise, leverage their support, and collaboratively drive your careers to new heights. In this course, you'll learn to recognize the value of delegating up and explore ways to establish a partnership with your manager for professional success. You'll learn how to navigate upward delegation and how to move ahead in your career by managing and delegating up effectively.
6 videos |
24m
Assessment
Badge
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Book
The Gift of Time: How Delegation Can Give you Space to SucceedWe're all drowning in work - never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines one after the other, too many emails to possibly answer! If only some of that load could be lifted... This important book shows you how to stop wasting your time on tasks you're overqualified for and teaches you how to actually focus on the important stuff.
2h 42m
By Gail Thomas
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The Busy Manager's Guide To DelegationFilled with quick tips, exercises, self-assessments, and practical worksheets, this comprehensive book presents an easy-to-master five-step process for effective delegation.
1h 9m
By Perry McIntosh, Richard A. Luecke
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Performance Management Pocketbook, Second EditionContaining illustrative case studies and a helpful review and actions section in each chapter, this concise guide will help you lead others to achieve results, engage and motivate others, set clear objectives, coach and delegate effectively, and more.
26m
By Pam Jones
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Delegating Effectively: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things DoneIn today's organizations, leaders are neither able nor expected to do everything themselves. This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.
22m
By Clemson Turregano
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Tackling Timewasters: Pleasing, Perfectionism, and ProcrastinationOffering strategies to help you better manage your time, this book shows how to prioritize important tasks and figure out how you can delegate, how you can streamline, how you can eliminate, how you can stop being a perfectionist, and how you can quit procrastinating.
16m
By Laura Stack
Book
Delegation & SupervisionDone right, delegation and supervision allows your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. This handy and concise guide reveals time-tested ways to boost the performance and productivity of your employees.
1h 12m
By Brian Tracy
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Effective Delegation, 2nd EditionThis Skill Builder offers some advice on how to make delegation a normal part of your work schedule. It will help you identify when you need the assistance of others and how you can learn to trust them with delegated tasks.
10m
By Tony Alessandra
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Delegating for Business SuccessWith this lively, new self-study course, you'll learn how to delegate effectively and assume delegated roles and tasks productively, which will enable you to make the best use of limited time, to respond rapidly to changing circumstances, and more.
1h 54m
By Janis Fisher Chan
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making empowers you to navigate the multilevel decision-making landscape and to use delegation to grow a cohesive team geared toward achievement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 17s
By Robert E. Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
Audiobook
Delegation & SupervisionThis audio edition reveals time-tested ways to boost the performance and productivity of your employees. Read by the author.
2h 9m 4s
By Brian Tracy
SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Delegation
Delegation involves assigning duties or obligations to another person, often a subordinate, while maintaining responsibility for the final result. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
6m
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