Delegation Skills Training Course

Course Aim

The delegation skills training course will show you how to use delegation correctly to improve productivity, increase engagement, support succession planning and generally motivate team members.

Lack of trust, lack of time and fear of things not being done to the right standard are some of the barriers that stop us from delegating. The course looks at how you can overcome those barriers and how to make sure that when you do delegate, you give yourself the best chance possible of getting the right outcome first time.

Course Objectives

By attending this Delegation Skills Training Course you will:

• Understand what effective delegation is
• Know when to delegate work to save time and develop others
• Be able to use an effective approach to ensure successful delegation
• Know how to overcome barriers to effective delegation
• Be able to demonstrate the skills necessary to delegate effectively.

Course Overview

Here is what we cover in this delegation skills training course:

What is Delegation

• Defining what delegation is
• What delegation isn’t
• Why delegate
• The benefits of delegation
• Types of delegation

Why Get it right

• How well you currently delegate
• The impact of poor delegation
• The impact of not delegating at all

Why We Don’t Delegate

• Common delegation barriers
• How to overcome delegation barriers

Delegation Process

• A 6 step process to effective delegation
• When to delegate
• What to delegate
• Who to delegate to

Effective Delegation Conversations

• Having effective delegation conversations
• Task breakdown and milestones
• Agreeing review times
• Feeding back on progress

Delegation Do’s and Don’ts

• A review and look at final delegation do’s and don’ts
• Practice delegation

Who Should Attend our Delegation Skills Training Course?

This delegation skills training course is for anyone who needs to delegate and is looking for ways to be more successful at delegating.

If you want to:

• Know how to delegate effectively
• Be able to delegate and trust that things will get done
• Reduce the amount of times things go wrong when you do delegate
• Have a simple to use structure and process to follow when delegating
• Motivate team members to take new tasks and develop new skills
• Have a better approach to succession planning

Then this delegation skills course is for you.

The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.

Online Training Courses

A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced delegation skills trainers. You also get:

• A highly interactive online experience
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
• A digital copy of the course materials from the course
• A digital course certificate

In-Person & Online In-House

A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced trainers at your location or online. You also get

• Course materials for each delegate to take away
• A course certificate
• Reporting on delegate evaluation
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer

Simple! We can't always do everything by ourselves. We need the help of our team to take some of our tasks so we can focus on other more important tasks. We might not have the skills to do everything. When this is the case, we need to delegate to people who do have the skills.

Delegation mainly fails for one of a few reasons - you didn't pick the right person, you didn't pick the right task, you didn't communicate what you wanted correctly or you didn't motive the team member to complete the task.

Yes. Delegation is a key part of time management. If you wanted a more detailed look at time management, then our time management training course may be more suitable.

Yes. We have lots of articles about delegation in the delegation section of our blog.