As a manager, it's all too easy to become inundated with various demands on your time, such as meetings, reports, and e-mails. To manage your time more effectively, you'll need to delegate some of your tasks. Delegating work not only frees you up for other tasks, it also motivates your team by showing that you trust them with key responsibilities. In this course, you'll learn about different delegation styles and fundamentals. You'll explore methods for preparing and launching a delegation. And you'll also learn how to educate, direct, and authorize delegates appropriately.

Understanding the essential responsibilities you have when directing and delegating to others, and the practices you should employ in order to meet those responsibilities, will lead to you fulfilling your duties and realizing the potential of your entire team. This course provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for your direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques you need to carry through with delegation. Finally, the course details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.

To delegate tasks and responsibilities successfully, you'll need to do a lot more than just choose someone to hand out assignments to; that is only the first step. To achieve good delegation results, you'll also need to provide the right level of supervision, feedback, and encouragement. In this course, you'll learn how to direct and motivate your delegates so they can take on new responsibilities with confidence. You'll explore how to identify and avoid engaging in negative or demotivating behaviors. You'll also learn how to respond when things go wrong and provide constructive criticism.

An effective delegation process is one where you've picked the right people, supervised and motivated them appropriately, and provided constructive feedback to ensure the delegated tasks are completed successfully. But that doesn't necessarily mean the delegation process should stop there. Even though you may have already met your objectives, you can still take your team to the next level through further delegation. In this course, you'll learn about the different levels of responsibility you can delegate to further team development. You'll explore how to direct and develop your team to overcome common delegation risks. And you'll also learn how to assess and improve your delegation skills.