Business Group Project Assignment: Your management team has been retained by a s

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Business Group Project Assignment:
Your management team has been retained by a senior manager who is concerned about the effectiveness of his managers and their teams. He would like your team 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.

Individual Assignment

* Select from planning, organizing, leading, or controlling activities (each member of the team should take a different one. If there are more than 4 team members, then more than 1 person can choose from these). Use the library, course materials, or other credible sources to research the concepts for developing teams using this type of activity, and develop 1–2 slides complete with in-depth speaker notes.
* Use the library, course materials, or other credible sources to research the concepts of delegation. Use the Discussion Board area to respond to the questions below about delegation. Contribute 1 initial response and follow up at least 2 times with an in-depth response to your peers.

Remember to use the library, course materials, or other credible resources to support your argument. Be sure to cite your sources using the correct standard of APA.

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Group Assignment

Your team's deliverable from this project will be a detailed description of the proposed Delegation training guide, presented as a PowerPoint slideshow with in-depth speaker's notes at the bottom of each slide.

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

* Suggest and summarize in-depth the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling activities as it relates to delegation for these managers (made up of the slides that you developed in your individual assignment).
* Define the term delegation. (Select the best information from the individual contributions)
* Why is the ability to effectively delegate important to a leader or manager? (Select the best information from the individual contributions)
* Why is the ability to effectively delegate important to the company? (Select the best information from the individual contributions)

Explanation / Answer

Incorporating the 12 Rules of Delegation Skills
Decide why you are delegating
Trust people you work with, and let go.
Create a delegation plan using a delegation matrix
Define tasks to be done
Assign tasks
Consider ability and training needs
Explain why each individual job is being done
Explain in detail what must be achieved
Verbally Announce Results
Be Prepared for Challenges
Give deadlines
Ask for feedback (Camp, R., 2007)
Summarizing a Plan
Defining Success & Assessing Qualifications per each Individual
Assessing Qualifications Needed
Process
Balancing Responsibility
Delegate Consistently
Balancing Assignments
Focus on Results
Group vs. Individual Delegation
Upward Delegation is an alternative
(Lannon, R., 2008)
Organizing
Full Authority for Decisions
Choose the Right person for the Job
Give Backup Support
Enough Information
Keeping Focused on Results
Delegate through Dialogue
Establish Parameters
Milestones and Check in Dates
Guidance without Interfering
Provide Adequate Resources
Make them Accountable
Stay away from Reverse Delegation
When Credit is Due
(Paauw, K., 2009)
Offer Feedback
Lead & Control
Lead
Instructions issued and Responsabilités assigned
Motivate your team
Balance between Individual Motivation and Cooperative Efficiency
(URS PM Certification Program, 2009)
Control
Progress has to be Measured
Coformance to a Plan such as a Schedule or Budget
Corrective Action has to be set in place. (URS PM Certification Program, 2009)
Delegation
Delegation is when a manager or leader transfers
authority or shares authority and responsibility that goes
with it to an employee or subordinate.
(Robbins, S.P., & Coulter, M. 2007)
Delegation
Leader/manager personal characters needed to delegate
Have integrity
Ability to lead others
Able to inspire others
Credibility
Good character
(Successful Delegation,2009)
Benefits of Delegating
Shift workload around to free up time for management
Get different views on issues
Create an atmosphere of trust and respect
Boost employee moral
Employees learn to take responsibility and learn from mistakes
Employees are better equipped to handle new issues
(Bovee C., L., Thill J., V. 2007).
Delegate Importance To A Company
Delegating in a company is about having the right person to take control, and make the best use of limited time.
The ability to delegate is crucial for a company to accomplish its goals.
It helps people feel more involve in the organization success.
It allows teams, department heads, and coworker to work together more efficiently.
It extends the company’s resources by expanding the number of people who are capable of doing a particular job, and it also helps reduce the stress that results when people feel overwhelmed. (Green, C., 2009)
(Farcht, J., 2009)
What Can be Delegated?
What Cannot Be Delegated?
Overbearing
When a manager refuses to let go they stop delegating and start parenting.
Conclusion
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt-
(Roosevelt, T., 2009)

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