From Power to Empower

Effective delegation is a key management skill and critical for team success. Develop others and free up your time for more strategic, planning, proactive or important tasks and activities whilst empowering your team, creating agility and capability. The temptation to 'just do it yourself' is very attractive particularly when you are busy. Often it feels like it will take more time to tell someone what to do, than it will to just do it yourself. The problem is that if you don't delegate nothing will change, you will stay busy, your team won't have opportunities to take ownership and responsibility for tasks and you become less effective.

From Power to Empower

If micro-management is the biggest threat to creativity, delegation is the greatest gift, when done correctly. The selfless leader actively seeks out opportunities to stretch and challenge their teams, helping them to develop their skills through showing, telling, coaching and mentoring. Delegation is a critical tool in developing your teams and when you do it well, your teams will thrive and generally rise to the challenge, often giving you back the important time you need to focus on strategic opportunities and projects.



Course Content

Exploring the barriers to delegation using a questionnaire and heat maps to highlight strengths and areas for development

Apply the DREAMS approach to be able to delegate effectively

Consider skills and strategies to bring DREAMS to life using real, workplace examples

Skills

  • Coaching & Mentoring
  • Empowering Others
  • Talent Development

Attributes

  • Trust
  • Inclusivity
  • Agility

Outcomes

  • Consider and reflect on own current barriers to delegation
  • Explore and understand the DREAMS framework to make effective delegation a reality
  • Develop a toolkit of resources to overcome barriers and sustain delegation for the benefit of the team and their own time management
  • Identify ways to increase and sustain team capability and agility.

How We Do It

Investing in employee development has proven to not only improve performance, but also to improve retention as employees expect and seek out employers who will provide personal and professional development.

Future Skills workshops are designed to stretch and grow skills AND attributes, recognising that everyone is on their own individual development journey. We use a range of approaches to respond to the various adult development stages that people operate at. The content and activities are rooted in experiential learning which has been proven over 30 years of working with organisations to unlock the self-awareness needed.

Our approach incorporates multiple dimensions which results in longer lasting impact - continuous growth far beyond any programme we deliver.

INNER DEVELOPMENT

Increasing self-awareness to self-lead and build better collaborative working relationships by unlocking authentic and best self.

CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Developing critical skills improves performance: communication, problem-solving, strategic and critical thinking, decision-making and leading high performing teams.

ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Developing systems awareness and strategic thinking to be able to drive growth in line with the organisation's purpose and future vision.

EXTERNAL CONTEXT DEVELOPMENT

Developing an awareness of external factors which impact on organisational performance and how to build teams and cultures to thrive in complexity.

A multi-dimensional approach to continuous growth



Future Skills Portfolio

Getting future fit means building the mindset to be agile, to be able to operate in complexity, to have the resilience and mental fitness to be able to self-lead and be open to explore, empathise, innovate, navigate and to act. Drawing on industry leading thinking and word-class tools we use in the development of leaders and teams, we categorise future skills into 3 key areas. View our Future Skills modules below:

To understand more about the skill gaps in your organisation we will design and implement a bespoke Development Needs Assessment, ensuring your L & D investment is targeted to ensure your employees are future fit and equipped with the desired skills and attributes for sustainable and continuous growth, contributing to future growth. Find out more about how you can get future fit as an organisation.

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