Delegating often means choosing between abandoning your team and micromanaging it: what if there were a whole range in between?
The right amount of delegation isn’t the same for a budget, a hire, or the choice of a tool. You adjust it to the stakes and the team’s maturity, instead of locking it into a single setting. This module gives you a precise scale, a tool to discuss it as a team, and the traps that undermine trust.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: DelegationAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- a seven-level scale for placing each decision, from “I decide” to “your call”
- the card game Delegation Poker, to align the team on who decides what
- the three pitfalls that ruin trust, and the habit of formally agreeing on any change of level
Who it’s for
Managers who want to delegate well, neither abandoning nor micromanaging, by matching their decisions to the team and the stakes.
Learning objectives
- Escape the two delegation traps, abandoning and micromanaging, by no longer seeing delegation as binary.
- Place a decision on Appelo’s seven levels, from “deciding alone” to “delegating fully”.
- Run a Delegation Poker session to align the team and formalize who decides what, decision by decision.
- Avoid the three pitfalls (fake consultation, unannounced level changes, one level for everything) and see what AI amplifies.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
