Delegation - Improve Your And Their Productivity

Instructor: Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., F.NSPE, Dist.M.ASCE

Topic: Delegation – Improve Your and Their Productivity

Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Time: 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Purpose and Background

As featured by the American Society of Civil Engineers.  Delegation means legitimately assigning part of your tasks to someone else. When done well, everyone wins. When done poorly, we experience “bossing,” “dumping,” or wasted effort.

In spite of compelling arguments in support of delegation, professionals often don’t do it or do it poorly. Engineers are especially adept at rationalizing why they cannot delegate or delegate more. This webinar addresses these obstacles to delegation and, more importantly, explains how to delegate effectively to produce win-win results.

Participants in this one-hour webinar receive a handout summarizing the webinar and it includes references to articles, books, e-newsletters, websites, and other self-study materials.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Appreciate 5 reasons to delegate
• Understand 8 delegation obstacles
• Learn 10 delegation tips

Webinar Benefits

• Understand retaining responsibility while giving up authority
• Provide opportunity for you to take on new responsibilities
• Help others learn, grow, and contribute
• Reduce stress
• Increase profitability
• Strengthen your organization

Intended Audience

If you are “drowning” in work and/or believe you could accomplish more, this webinar is for you. This webinar is intended for public and private sector individuals, regardless of position or specialty, who are open to the idea that more effective delegation can help them, coworkers and others. While this webinar will facilitate more productive supervisor-supervisee relationships, one does not need to be a supervisor to benefit.

Webinar Outline

• Giving up authority while retaining responsibility
• Avoiding “dumping” and “bossing”
• Reasons to delegate
• Delegation obstacles
• Delegation tips
• Positive and negative outcomes of delegation and how to respond
• Consequences of not delegating
• Bottom-line argument for delegation
• Personal action plans
• Resources for additional study

Cost: Free, HWEA Members Only