Agenda - Council Work Session - 10/24/2017

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Profiles CheckPoint 360° Competency Feedback SystemTM Individual Development Guide for Sally Sample Area of Focus: Delegating Responsibility Knowing When to Delegate and When to Take Responsibility Skills, Behaviors and Attitudes to Adapt and Practice • Failing to delegate communicates your lack of confidence in your direct reports' abilities. Delegate to the lowest possible level. • Accept the fact that others can handle some tasks as capably as you can - maybe even better. • Share responsibility and accountability for delegated work. • Delegate important tasks you do not have time to do thoroughly. • Remember, each time you perform a task someone else can, you keep yourself from doing a task that only you can do. • Prepare your direct reports for delegation. Be sure your direct reports know that it is an expectation of their job to accept and commit to delegated tasks. Challenging Activities • In two columns, separate responsibilities that you must retain from activities that you can delegate to others. Review and ask yourself if you are holding onto unnecessary tasks that you can delegate. • List the names of two or three direct reports. Next to their names, write an assignment you could delegate to them as well as the results you expect from this delegation. • For a month, ask your direct reports to make a list of the opportunities you missed to delegate to them. Analyze each incident and ask yourself, "To whom could I have delegated that responsibility? What prevented me from doing so? What was the cost to me, my team, my manager, my organization, and our customers when I didn't take that opportunity to delegate responsibility?