Diary for 16-01-2012

Organising and Delegating [Business Scene]

For the practising or aspiring front line manager, who needs to find suitable methods of organising the team, and deciding to whom best to delegate work tasks, for efficient and effective achievement of objectives.

What are the course objectives?

• Explain the importance of making effective and efficent use of people's knowledge and skills while planning a team's work to achieve objectives.
• Use a chosen technique to identify the appropriate person for an activity.
• Explain how human resource planning can be used to assure output and quality
• Give examples of delegation and empowerment in the workplace.
• Identify barriers to/support for delegation
• Explain a technique that could be used to monitor the outcomes of delegation in the workplace.
• Review the effectivenss of feedback, recognition and reward techniques in the workplace.

What's in the course?

• What kind of boss are YOU?
• Planning the team's work
• Techniques to decide who's best for the task
• The need for making best use of people's strengths and skills
• 'Efficiency' v. 'Effectiveness'
• Who has the authority, repsonsibility and accountability?
• Delegation and empowerment
• Agreeing a 'Contract' of delegation
• What stops us delegating?

16th New Year Updates for www.liquavision.com

Last week we made a number of changes to the website for Liquavision who sell underwater ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) and other cool tech. One of the sections that was updated was for their SubSea range of Technical ROVs. You can check out the site by clicking here or on the image above to read more about these amazing vehicles....read the rest of the story