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Empower Your Team

The Leadership Excellence Series

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Delegation

  • The process of:
    • Transferring responsibility from one person to another
    • Empowering that person to accomplish a specific goal

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Barriers to Delegation

  • Lack of confidence
  • Trouble with trust
  • Wanting credit
  • Ineffective communication
  • Needing control

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Five Steps of Delegation

  1. Prioritize
  2. Match needs to availability and ability
    • Knowledge
    • Motivation
    • Ability

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Five Steps of Delegation

  1. Assign responsibility
    • Describe the work and goal
    • Identify training needs
    • Identify resources
  2. Empower authority
  3. Establish accountability

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Benefits of Delegation

  • A more involved and empowered workforce
  • Increased productivity and quality
  • Reduced costs
  • More innovation
  • Greater commitment from the team

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Never tell people how to do things. �Tell them what to do and they �will surprise you with their ingenuity.

– General George Smith Patton, Jr.,�United States Army officer

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