Sprint: Delegation

The Overlooked Skill Set for Demonstrating Leadership

Tap into delegation's potential to boost your team's growth and your leadership impact. This course reveals how delegation can be a catalyst for skill development and network expansion.

During this Sprint, you and your colleagues will create opportunities that highlight your team's talents and bring recognition to your department with your daily work as an a learning opportunity. When you finish, you will have the ability and inclination to delegate in ways that elevate both individual careers and team performance.

Learning Objectives

Core Principles and Practical Applications

To examine the key principles of effective delegation in tech leadership
To analyze the relationship between delegation and team member growth
To explore delegation as a tool for building professional networks
To study successful delegation practices in rapidly growing tech companies
To create a delegation plan that aligns with team members' skills and career goals
To implement a system for tracking delegated tasks and measuring outcomes
To apply delegation strategies that showcase your team's talents to upper management
To develop a plan for using delegation to expand your influence within the organization

Primary Audience

Designed to address the professional development of managers reporting to a COO, CIO, CEO, or other senior manager at a growth-oriented tech organization.

Your managers participate as a cohort of up to 4, 12, or 25.
As with any group of professionals whose performance counts, you learn and develop together as a team so you build your relationships and experience with each other.

Prerequisites

Onboarding – Required for new companies and/or first time ELEVATE sprint participants. 90 minutes.

Can be taken as a first ELEVATE Sprint? Yes

Technical Requirements

Laptop or mobile with Internet access
Any calendar system.
Any email system.
Any work environment project management system with Kanban capability (such as Trello, Asana, or others).

Enrollment Period

Once enrolled, your company cohort will have access to the training portal for onboarding prior to the start of the Sprint.

Once the Sprint begins, you will have access to the live support calls for the Sprint, as well as for 30 days following the completion of the Sprint for review and reinforcement. ELEVATE program participants have access and follow-up support for 1 year.

Why True Delegation Matters in Leadership

Reclaim lost productivity: US tech companies lose an estimated $37 billion annually due to ineffective meetings. For a 500-person company, that's approximately $18.5 million a year. This program can help recapture up to 20% of that lost time, directly impacting your bottom line.
Accelerate innovation cycles: According to a McKinsey study, tech employees spend 35% of their work week in meetings. Streamlining these sessions can speed up product development cycles by up to 15%, giving you a competitive edge in the fast-paced tech market.
Enhance cross-functional collaboration: Break down silos that cost tech organizations up to 25% of their productive capacity. Learn techniques that other top tech managers use to make meetings a catalyst for interdepartmental synergy, crucial for complex tech projects.
Boost employee retention: 67% of workers cite unproductive meetings as a major source of job dissatisfaction in a recent Korn Ferry report. Improve meeting effectiveness to increase engagement and potentially reduce turnover costs, which average 100-150% of a tech employee's salary.
Optimize remote and hybrid workflows: With 76% of tech companies adopting hybrid models, learn how to run engaging virtual meetings that bridge the gap between in-office and remote team members, ensuring consistent productivity across all work environments.

Curriculum for this Sprint

What You Will Learn

Effective delegation aligns tasks with team members' skills and career goals
Clear communication of expectations is crucial for successful delegation
Delegation is a tool for developing team members and expanding their capabilities
Proper follow-up and support ensure delegated tasks are completed successfully
Strategic delegation can enhance your leadership visibility and influence

Tools, Frameworks, Systems

Criteria for Levels of Delegation
Delegation Assignment Matrix
Delegation Kanban board
Situational Leadership Model
RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) Chart and Process
Five Levels of Delegation Framework

Enrollment is Easy

My Team is Ready to Grow

This Sprint takes place: 1x per quarter.

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