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He would like your team (the team of employees writing the guide) to develop a training guide on delegation. The training guide should be designed to improve the interest in, and delegation skills of his managers. He also wants the training guide to include and address the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling activities.

Your training guide should, at a minimum, effectively address the following questions:

1 Suggest and summarize in-depth, the planning, organizing, leading and controlling activities as it relates to delegation for these managers.

2 Why is the ability to effectively delegate important to a leader/manager?

3 Define the term delegation.

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He would like your team (the team of employees writing the guide) to develop a training guide on delegation. The training guide should be designed to improve the interest in, and delegation skills of his managers. He also wants the training guide to include and address the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling activities.

Your training guide should, at a minimum, effectively address the following questions:

1 Suggest and summarize in-depth, the planning, organizing, leading and controlling activities as it relates to delegation for these managers.

2 Why is the ability to effectively delegate important to a leader/manager?

3 Define the term delegation.
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Training Guide/Outline on Leadership/Delegation:

Goals:
1. To understand what delegation means;
2. To be able to state the reasons of the importance of the ability to effectively delegate; and
3. To suggest and explain some activities on planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

Introduction: Delegation and the four functions of leaders/managers.
A. The meaning of delegation
B. The importance of effective delegation
C. Suggested activities on the four functions of managers/leaders:
1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Controlling

Summary & Follow-up
1. Follow-up planning survey
2. Next steps/plans
3. Training evaluation

A. The definition of delegation
Delegation is the temporary or permanent assignment of some responsibilities and tasks to specific individuals or groups who are made accountable for the specific outcomes or achievements that arise from this transfer of responsibilities.

When tasks are delegated to specific persons, it is not merely giving out the things to be done. Rather, the one delegating explains to the assigned person the outcomes and the results that they should achieve and the ones assigned creates the process and the steps on how the tasks must be done in order to accomplish the goals. The extent of the involvement of the manager assigning the task depends on the knowledge and experience of the assigned staff. If the staff is an experienced one, then supervision is set to minimal while maximum if the staff is just a beginning or someone who lacks the experience needed to perform the job. In this case, the manager must ...

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