Directing and delegating
Examine your natural approach to directing and delegating, and consider how different employees may need you to adapt.
- Your action plan
- Choose how you will direct and delegate to one of your direct reports.
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Managing People
Help your managers set clear expectations, delegate responsibility, give useful feedback, and develop their people. Managing People connects these everyday responsibilities with practice in real working relationships.
Built on Everything DiSC® Management
What we cover
Start by understanding your management style and practicing how to read behavioral cues in others. Then explore how to adapt your approach in four areas of your work with people.
Examine your natural approach to directing and delegating, and consider how different employees may need you to adapt.
Explore what motivates different people and how your management approach shapes the environment they work in.
Reflect on your approach to developing people and consider development from the employee’s point of view.
Consider how your own manager may see you and how you can adapt your approach to work more effectively together.
Built on Everything DiSC® Management, the program helps participants develop four action plans focused on real working relationships.
Inside Managing People
Explore management examples, reflect on your own approach, and consider what different people need from you. Build action plans for the employees you manage and the manager you work with.
Select an activity to explore how participants work.
In the directing and delegating and motivation modules, participants compare ineffective and adapted approaches. Discussion examines what the manager did, how the employee responded, and what changed in the adapted example.
Participants review their Everything DiSC® Management information, note what fits their experience, and discuss how their approach affects their work with others.
People reading helps participants consider others’ needs. It is not a way to label people: everyone is a mixture of styles, and an initial interpretation may be incomplete.
Developing talent
Participants select a specific employee and build an action plan for supporting that person’s development.
The managing up module brings attention to their own manager: how that manager may see them, approaches to gaining buy-in, and ways to handle conflict.
Action planning across four areas
Participants use the program’s guidance to develop their plans and share ideas with a partner or small group.
In Russo Leadership’s two-session format, managers test an adjustment at work between sessions, then return to review what happened and refine their approach.
Facilitated programs
Bring Managing People to a private group of managers within your organization.
Enroll yourself or sponsor managers to learn alongside participants from other organizations.
Russo Leadership Academy
Explore Managing People through self-guided learning. Complete the Everything DiSC® Management assessment, work through the course, and apply what you learn to directing, motivating, developing, and managing up.
Includes 12-month course access through the Russo Leadership Academy. Learning and application are independent, without live facilitation or cohort feedback.
Explore the Academy →Participant perspectives
This experience provided not just the opportunity for self reflection, but clear insight and advice on how to better communicate and grow as a manager.
This is one more reason I’m proud to be a Pirate. I’ve never been in an organization that offered leadership training this relevant and applicable.
Feedback from previous Management Excellence cohorts. The current Managing People format is described above.
Delegation
Delegation is who owns the work, while direction is more of the how and when
Motivation
Motivation is better achieved when you recognize the environment you are creating for success rather than what you are doing as a motivator
Managing up
To not only think about how to present info to your boss, but also to the other stakeholders it will go to.
Managing People
Bring Managing People to your organization or explore an open cohort. We’ll help you choose the format that fits your managers and their responsibilities.