Developing Our Most Important Resource, Our Human Resource!

8264 136 Street North
Seminole, Florida 33776
Phone/Fax 727-389-6152

Steven P. Rosenthal
President

The Training Tree, Inc. Seminar Development

Each seminar is available in a three or six hour format. Separate versions have been developed for private sector and public sector clients. These are sample titles-Each seminar is custom designed for your organization.

• Action Plans & Accountability

• Becoming Customer Focused

• Constructive Action Team: Putting The CAT To Work For You

• Customer Service: Making The Transition From Regulator To Enabler

• Counseling for Results

• Dorothy and Leadervision: Managing from Oz

• Developing A Negotiation’s Team

• Ethical Decision Making

• Getting Things Done

• If It Was So Common It Would Just Be Called Sense

• Managing and Coping With Change

• Managing Meetings: Why Some Work and Others Don’t

• Negotiating Your Way To Success

• Negotiations Skills Workshop

• New Supervisor’s Workshop

• Performance Appraisal: In Search of the Ultimate System

• Personality Charting: Understanding Your Team

• P.I.C. Your Way To Improvement: Creating a Performance Improvement Process

• Positive Mental Attitude-PMA

• Problem Solving: Navigating Around The Decision Traps

• Process Improvement For Those Who Hate TQM

• Selection Process: From Type To Process

• Sexual Harassment: The Liability Game (Creating A Harassment Free Environment)

• Sherlock Holmes and The Hiring Process

Delegating: Sharing Power and Responsibility

Delegating is getting work done through other people. When we delegate, we are empowering and entrusting the performance of a task to someone else-usually a subordinate. An important aspect of delegation is that it gives others the right to make decisions within prescribed limits. In other words, delegating is not merely assigning a routine task that can be done by rote. Rather it implies passing along necessary information and a certain amount of decision-making authority and responsibility.

The obvious question is: Why delegate? There are five basic reasons to consider:

• Delegating gives you more time to perform important supervisory tasks.

• Delegating lets you develop the skills of your subordinates, as fully as possible, so that they enjoy the benefits of learning new tasks. Your department reaps the benefits of having a more valuable employee.

• Delegating allows you to increase your company or division’s productivity.

• Delegating lets you multiply your own efforts. By training your subordinate to perform your tasks, you will make yourself a better candidate for promotion because someone else is skilled enough to assume your job.

• Delegating is under-utilized. There is an enormous reserve of competent skills out there waiting to be tapped.

When a Supervisor Should Delegate!

If you think about all the different tasks for which you are responsible, you will find that there are many times when it will be to your advantage to delegate. Listed below are a few of them:

• Delegate when your workload is too heavy!

If you’ve recently obtained more work than you can comfortably handle yourself, delegate-Especially when you need more time to handle supervisory tasks,

• Delegate when a subordinate will gain from the experience.

Your subordinates are probably eager to learn new skills and advance. You can help them by showing them how to perform a task and then delegating it.

• Delegate before an extended absence.

If you’re going to be away from work for an extended period of time, be sure to divide among subordinates those tasks that can be delegated.