Program Description

New for 2025!

Every minute that managers spend doing something that someone else can do is one less minute managers have to do something only they can do. If there are tasks that you currently do that others can accomplish or that others could help you accomplish, this workshop helps uncover those tasks and plan for how to delegate them to others. Delegation can help you accomplish your goals, while advancing the abilities, confidence, and initiative of your employees. Delegation can help managers develop greater employee engagement.

This workshop is designed to help managers, supervisors, and emerging supervisors assess their current delegation practices and uncover additional strategies for more effectively empowering their team members. We explore skills that enhance the delegation process, while assessing personal inhibitors and facilitators of delegation.

Program Benefits

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Move away from “doing” & more towards managing and coordinating
• Apply an effective step-by-step process for successful & mutually beneficial delegation
• Choose the right tasks to delegate & match those tasks to the right people
• Use delegation to develop a competent and motivated staff
• Effectively deal with people who respond negatively to delegation
• Make their expectations clear & understand their employees’ concerns
• Feel less guilt about delegating
• Create more time to accomplish those tasks that only managers can do

Topics CovereD

Participants’ Current Delegation Practices

• Assessing the urgency of additional delegation
• Assessing participants’ missed delegation opportunities
• Assessing why participants do not delegate as much as possible
• Uncovering personal delegation obstacles & their solutions

Participants’ Future Delegation Opportunities

• Assessing participants’ job responsibilities & specific tasks
• How to decide what to delegate

The Phases of Successful Delegation

• How to select the right task & the right person for a good match
• How to clearly communicate the assignment, its parameters, and the level of authority delegated
• How to create & review the task’s action plans, its obstacles, proposed solutions, & mutual expectations
• How to monitor employee progress, troubleshoot arising problems, and coach team members back on track using the OSKAR coaching model

Who Should Enroll

• Managers, supervisors, and those with management potential, who want to find ways to further involve employees at work
• New managers recently promoted due to their technical expertise, who need to further develop their management skills
• More experienced managers looking to refresh their delegation tools and take their management skills to the next level.

Not sure if this program is right for you? Contact us at um.continuinged@maine.edu and we can help you figure it out.

Program Details

Instructor

Robert Kenney, Ph.D.
(he/him/his)

Bob Kenney is President of Partners Through Training, based in Richmond, Virginia.  As a national and international trainer and business consultant since 1993, Bob designs and delivers practical professional development opportunities in the areas of leadership, management, and team development for in-person, remote, and hybrid working arrangements; change management; influence, motivation, and workforce engagement; virtual and in-person meeting management and facilitation; creative problem solving and innovation; mentoring and critical thinking; cultural and emotional intelligence; and interpersonal conflict and collaboration.  Bob’s clients include pharmaceutical and health care organizations; manufacturing plants; school-age and higher educational institutions; commercial airlines and other service-based corporations; nonprofit organizations; and local, state, and federal government agencies.  Bob has partnered with 23 centers for continuing and executive education through Virginia’s Community College System and at major universities, such as Duke University, North Carolina, Virginia, Pittsburgh, and multiple campuses in the University of Maine System.  Bob holds a Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology, with a specialization in small group training and organizational analysis, from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Program Dates and Times

June 18 & 25, 2025
8:00 am – 12:00 pm ET

Modality

Synchronous live instruction via Zoom video conferencing. You will need a stable internet connection.

Program Fee

$250

Maine Community Foundation Scholarship Resources

Class Capacity

• 45 participants

Evidence of learning

Accommodations

For more information or to request an accommodation contact us at um.continuinged@maine.edu.