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Soft skills: Leading employees

Delegate

Delegating is a crucial leadership task. How good are your managers at it?

Delegate instead of doing it yourself

Your managers have difficulty delegating tasks? Especially in the first management level, many have Role as a manager not yet fully internalized and feel more like a team member. They also often enjoy doing specialist tasks themselves. After all, that was the job they originally chose and learned.

Often, managers do not trust their employees to do the tasks and want to save themselves the effort of enabling them to do them. This leads to managers being so engrossed in their own tasks that they Failure to adequately perform management tasksThere is then no time for team leadership. This leaves team members with fewer opportunities to learn and develop. Coordination, advance planning and agreement outside the team also fall by the wayside.

Trust or control?

Your managers delegate, but tell the employees everything and control every step? Micromanagement ties up leadership capacity and frustrates the teamIt is just as bad if your managers think they just have to trust and then let everything go, risking that the performance and the results will not be right in the end.

Delegation as an opportunity for empowerment

How can your managers ensure that tasks are completed properly, giving employees as much responsibility and freedom as possible, while at the same time taking advantage of the opportunity for employee development? By learn how to delegate professionally.

How we can support your leaders:

We work with your managers, what questions they need to clarify when delegatingWe reflect on why they have done tasks themselves in the past and encourage them to overcome these obstacles and delegate more in the future.

The managers receive a Checklist for a successful delegation meetingYou will learn how to empower employees while ensuring that tasks are completed at the agreed time and with the required quality.

How you benefit:

When your managers delegate more, they can more easily keep track of things and take better care of their employees.

When delegated professionally, the work result is much more likely to meet the requirements, which saves rework, effort and hassle. Your employees take on more responsibility when they delegate appropriately. They can contribute themselves and their skills within the appropriate scope. This not only enables them to develop their potential and progress, but also makes them more motivated.

Training modules

Enquire now:

LEAP

Leading People in Projects

Manage projects professionally. Develop leadership skills and learn team leadership.

3 days

Level 3

POLES

Positive Leadership

How your managers can positively influence the satisfaction and performance of your employees.

3 days

Level 4

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