Are you a manager who wants to empower your employees and learn strategic communications?
Are you experiencing more pressure from your boss while attempting to manage your entire department?
Great! This article will provide you with strategies to use to reduce YOUR stress at work and empower your employees at the same time.
Delegation Challenges
Delegation won’t work if your employees don’t trust you and if they don’t have the right skills. This is a perfect time for you to coach certain team members who have the potential to help them grow professionally. It may be a good time to have a realistic conversation about your expectations. Make sure and share specific details on what will happen if the employee doesn’t improve by a certain time. The rest of the article will help you encourage your skilled employees to grow which will improve the trust.
Strategic Communications Tip #1: Delegation has Clear Options
Check out the list below. Start with the top of the list – when you don’t trust an employee, and work to the bottom of the list – when you have total trust in an employee. Once people learn responsibility, you can confidently stop micromanaging!
- Look into this problem. Give me all the facts. I will decide what to do.
2. Let me know the available alternatives.
3. Recommend a course of action for my approval.
4. Let me know what you intend to do. Do it unless I say not to.
5. Take action. Let me know what you did. Let me know how it turns out.
6. Take action. Communicate with me only if your action is unsuccessful.
7. Take action. No further communication with me is necessary.
Strategic Communications #2: Advantages of Delegation
You don’t need to do everything yourself. When you’re able to delegate well, you’ll experience that delegation helps:
- Save time
- Build stronger staff
- Motivate employees
- Build mutual trust
- Improve quality of work
- Help overworked managers
Strategic Communications From Joyce
If you are a manager who recognizes that you are not doing the greatest job in the delegation area, believe me, you are NOT alone! My executive coaching practice has shown me that many great leaders never learned how to coach others and develop their team. This is a skill that must be taught and experienced. Cicero wrote, “Where there is life, there is hope!” 🙂
I want to hear from you!
CLICK HERE to send me your questions on how to stop micromanaging and start delegating.
What tips have you learned on coaching your team and building trust?
Until next time,
This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist and Coach
I look forward to helping my loyal readers any way that I can. Post questions or write me a private email at Joyce@JoyceWeiss.com
Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, and on line professional growth coaching.
Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!
See YOU Next Week.
PS CLICK HERE if you want more information on coaching your team. “Coaching Others to Take Ownership” is another one of my articles that shares several leadership strategies.
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