Team leadership: Delegating your tasks
A team leader who shares their workload within a team is more likely to be achieve success than someone who can’t delegate effectively – so how does this critical managerial skill work, and what are the best ways to do it? This course provides people with a range of practical tools they need to successfully delegate tasks, and delegation approaches to use to realise a team’s full potential.
Description
Jessica Jackley, businesswoman, said “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do”. Delegating effectively is the key skill team leaders must learn to balance their workload and to motivate their team on the way to achieving success. Course participants will discover ways to share their workload by assessing their readiness to delegate. Additionally, using decision-making tools, participants will identify what tasks they should be delegating.
Through discussion and case studies, participants will compare delegation approaches to use depending on task complexity and team member capability. Participants will also look at steps they can take to delegate effectively to make their workload more manageable and to provide developmental experiences for the people they are delegating tasks to.
Learning outcomes
This course is designed to help you:
- Explore issues and obstacles that underpin delegation avoidance.
- Recognise how effective delegation improves individual and team outcomes.
- Identify which tasks to delegate to whom, and when.
- Compare and use delegation frameworks to manage workload and to develop individuals.
Intended audience
This course is designed for engineering professionals who aspire to, or who have been recently appointed to, a team leader position, as well as engineering professionals who wish to refresh their team leadership capabilities. The course will focus on practical delegation skills from a general engineering perspective. It is relevant for all engineering professionals who have people and task management responsibilities at a supervisory level, and who want to enhance their productivity and assume joint responsibility by delegating tasks to their team members.
Format
Team leadership: Delegating your tasks is a three-hour course, facilitated online. Concepts and theories will be introduced and explained, then applied against authentic engineering contexts through case studies and discussion. Real-time interactions such as polls and Q&As will allow you to connect and ask questions throughout the course.
Presenter information
A Senior Learning Partner at Engineering New Zealand, Drew Barnett helps engineering professionals build their capabilities to effect positive impacts on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Drew has 15 years’ experience helping people develop in leadership roles across a variety of contexts. As someone with hands-on experience in leading teams, Drew knows what it means to deal with competing demands from tasks and people, and he is a firm believer that leadership is learnable. View on LinkedIn