Do the problems you handed off keep coming back to you? Five practices for delegating without burning out.
Delegate effectively by overcoming the 5 formidable obstacles to delegation. Learn not to take a “monkey” onto your shoulders, and to trust your team members.
20 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- the 5 psychological obstacles holding you back from delegating
- the antidote to “reverse delegation”: no longer taking on your team members' monkeys
- a questionnaire to identify what's holding you back, and strategies for overcoming it
Target audience
Managers looking to acquire the fundamentals of management.
Learning objectives
- Understand the mechanisms of “reverse delegation”
- Identify and hand back the “monkeys” you've taken on by agreeing to do your team members' work for them
- Identify what's holding you back from delegating through a questionnaire
- Overcome your obstacles to delegation with the right strategies
Module outline
- Storytelling“Reverse Delegation”1'51A story illustrating how a team member can overload their manager with responsibilities
- Articles
- The 10 main obstacles to delegation
- Self-assessment of drivers (transactional analysis questionnaire)
- The 5 drivers and their antidotes for delegation
- Expert video“Taking on Monkeys or Delegating”6'58How to identify and overcome the obstacles that make delegation difficult
- AnchoringQuiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
- Memo cardDownloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
