Hello, welcome to your course, on how to delegate without stress. My name is Mike clean, and I'll be your tutor for the course. I started my professional career in consulting services, and I was soon promoted to manager and senior manager. And what I discovered was that it was impossible to be effective without delegating my work effectively to more junior colleagues. But that wasn't the only reason for me to delegate. Because increasingly, as my career progressed, I was being measured, not on the work I was able to do, but on the work that my team were able to do.

And success for me was very much about developing the next generation of consultants. Who would rise up and allow me to progress in my career? So delegation is a vital business skill. It's valuable for you, whether you're a project manager, as I was, or an operational or line manager, the supervisor, or a team leader. I've divided this course into five sections. And in the first section, I'll introduce you to what delegation really is and what it's not.

And I'll also talk about reverse delegation. How to Avoid feeling as though it's your team who are delegating work to you, rather than you delegating work to them. A lot of new managers, project managers and team leaders find it hard to delegate. They find all sorts of excuses which boil down to problems Mind. So we'll look at what those excuses are, and why they're bogus. How you can get past those excuses and start to make use of delegation to make it that vital business tool that it is.

And delegation is vital, but only when used properly in the right circumstances and for the right reasons. So in Section three, we will look at the reasons why you should delegate and the reasons why you should not what is delegate and what to not delegate. It's Section four, that is the core of this program. In Section four, I'll take you through my five step delegation process. And then we'll look in detail at each step to give you the tools, the techniques and the resources to delegate effectively. And finally, in Section five, we'll wrap it all up.

This is going to be a valuable course for you. There's a workbook to download. Use it to take notes, do the exercises, and you will learn to be a powerful delegator. You will learn how to delegate without stress.