View Shopping Cart | Register | Login

YOU ARE HERE : -

Delegation Skills

Free Training Resources, Games, Roleplays, Exercises & Downloads

Current Articles

Training Resources and Articles on
Delegation Skills

Management Exercise: 6 Levels of Delegation

:: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building, Productivity, Motivation, Decision Making, Delegation Skills

Delegation is a great way to save time. Apart from saving time, delegation helps motivate your staff by giving them responsibility. Your team will benefit by participating in activities and the decision making process and therefore becomes more capable and autonomous over time. The organisation will benefit from having a pool of staff that can cover each other, take more responsibility and resolve issues on their own.

As a result, a manager must constantly think about delegating tasks to others not just to save time but also to help the team grow and become more capable.

Depending on how much control you want to have over a delegated task, you can choose from one of the six levels of delegation to control the outcome and also how much time you want to save.

In this exercise, participants will learn about these six levels and will participate in an activity to better understand them.

Why Are We Afraid of Delegating and What Can We Do About it

:: Training Articles, Productivity, Planning, Delegation Skills, Resource Management

People are afraid of delegation. It is epidemic! Ask your colleagues how good they are in delegation and you are bound to hear something similar to these:

“I am terrible at it”
“I like to be better”
“I wish I could do more”
“I never feel comfortable when I delegate to someone”
“I don’t have anyone to delegate to”
“They can never do a good job”

If this sounds familiar, then read on as this article explores our fears of delegation and suggests a few simple productivity techniques that can improve your delegation skills.

Leadership Exercise: Follow My Instructions

:: Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Giving Feedback, Memory, Delegation Skills

This is a powerful exercise that brings out the potential qualities of a good leader. It is a fairly physical exercise and you may need to brief the participants beforehand so they can come ready to participate in this exercise (for example, come with comfortable cloth). It is an ideal exercise for team building where you can explore a range of topics on management and how to respond to a manager’s instructions.

Communication Exercise: Giving Feedback

:: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Exercises for Kids, Energizer, Giving Feedback, Delegation Skills

This is a fun exercise which demonstrates the importance of communication and feedback in the success of a team.

Can You Make it with Dominos?

:: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Exercises for Kids, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills, Delegation Skills

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of feedback in communications and realize why the lack of it can be so frustrating for both sides. By working together towards a common goal, delegates will learn to be patient, pay attention to details and of course use feedback.

Coaching Exercise: To Tell or Not to Tell

:: Exercises, Communication Skills, Coaching, Energizer, Body Language, Acting, Giving Feedback, Delegation Skills

This is an energizing exercise designed to show the difference between direct instructions and feedback. In other words, it shows that shaping seems to be a lot more effective than telling.This is an ideal exercise for coaching as it clearly demonstrates the effect of indirect feedback.

Exercise: This is How You Should Make It

:: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Problem Solving, Giving Feedback, Questioning Skills, Listening Skills, Delegation Skills

In this creative exercise, participants get to understand the value of confirmations and feedback in communication. Sometimes instructors fail to observe, receive feedbacks and correct the procedure done by a different person under their instruction. This is also a good exercise in practicing questioning techniques, in particular open versus close questions. Of course, you can explore other questioning techniques with variations of this exercise.

The following content is provided to you for FREE. We like to give you more.

LINK to us to keep us motivated.

Subscribe to RSS

Receive by Email

Follow @skillsconverged

Google+ Facebook

Subscribe to receive updates to free training materials by Email

>> Frequently Updated <<

Exercise Similarity Analysis helps you to find the training activities you are looking for quicker than ever before by letting you follow clusters of similar exercises. Our Similarity Algorithm can accurately spot exercises in the collection which are similar to the one you are currently reading. These are shown in order of similarity at the end of each training activity. Following clusters of exercises can inspire you to find better exercises suitable for your specific training needs.

We are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for you to find what you want. Please let us know about your views on this or other features.

Free Giveaway Training Resources

Want more? We have prepared a Free Training Pack for you with guidelines, soft skills exercises and useful training resources to run your training courses better than ever before.