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We are pleased to bring you Leadership Matters, a monthly publication designed to explore workplace issues that face today's managers and supervisors. Our topic this week is Delegating. Feel free to pass it on to anyone in your organization who you think may benefit. |
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Delegating, Empowerment, and Strategic Alignment
Getting your organization strategically aligned through delegation
There are good habits that we hope
all of our supervisors and managers have to help them handle the often powerful
and complex challenges of leadership. Bill Gates once said:
"Virtually every company will be
going out and empowering with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in
how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back
and really thinks through their business processes - thinking through how their
business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback,
their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before." Bill
Gates Some Perspective
Leaders who regularly delegate are strategically aligned with their employees
to improve business processes and provide feedback. This engages employees so
that they are reciprocally aligned with their leaders.
Delegating demonstrates trust and
encourages development. When you have these two factors at work in your
organization, you have a positive environment in which empowered employees are
focused on organizational goals.
Strategic alignment, therefore, is a two way street. If you
could express the power of delegation in a formula for success it might look
like this:
By delegating responsibilities and projects with clear
communication, the bonds of the team are strengthened, manager-employee
relationships are improved and a synergistic relationship results. This ties
managers and employees together in strategic alignment for the achievement of
business goals.
One of the most powerful tools a leader will ever have is
communication. There is no replacement for being able to communicate well in
the delegation process. Leaders must be able to communicate the
"what" and the "why" of every task they delegate. Without
taking the time to communicate correctly, misunderstandings occur, workloads
become unbalanced, bonds are broken, processes stall, and strategic alignment
with goals never occurs.
Therefore, to delegate and empower appropriately, managers and
supervisors must learn the following skills:
- Explain the need
for delegation.
- Use delegation of
tasks to motivate.
- Explain tasks and
ask team member's view (getting feedback).
- Specify
responsibility and authority (empowerment).
- Confirming team
member's understanding and set up time review (process improvement).
In a perfect world everyone is going out and empowering as is alluded to in our
quote from Bill Gates; however, delegating does more than that. It
develops people who are able to work through processes and make things better.
Then as people develop, they move through the corporate ladder. Delegating
expresses confidence in team members and motivates them to achieve strategic
goals and redefine their own potential. Delegating creates your leaders of
tomorrow, who already are strategically aligned with leadership and goals. What
could be better than that?
Delegating, a program from Leadership
Essentials, provides leadership tools that will empower your organization.
These programs are complete with the Vital
Leadership Resource
Center to support this
training which can be completed in the classroom, online or delivered with the
best of both worlds through blended learning.
Let us show you how you can put Delegating into action. Get started and
receive the value of an empowered organization, delegation, and
strategic alignment today. The Leadership Essentials Series is designed to meet your training and budgetary needs. Want to learn more about "Delegating" or the complete Vital Learning leadership development curriculum? Available in Classroom, Online, or Blended delivery options, the Vital Learning curriculum includes the following essential topics.
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Coaching Job Skills - understanding why coaching is important and how it supports company goals
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Disciplining - understanding how to discipline others to eliminate problem behavior
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Complaints - being able to effectively manage complaints
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Project Management - being able to run projects, both on-time and on-budget
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Conflict - understanding how to successfully resolve conflict
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Hiring Winning Talent- knowing what to do to consistently hire the right talent
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Providing Feedback - understanding how to establish performance goals and standards and give feedback
- And more...
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TheLearningEngine.org and MyExecutiveCoach.net are divisions of N. E. Fried and Associates, Inc. with offices in California and Ohio. We've proudly served over 1500 clients and are pleased to serve you.
Sincerely,
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N. Elizabeth Fried, Ph.D.
President
The Learning Engine |
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