Event Details
Delegation: Developing Others Through Shared Work (Dinner Meeting)
| Date: | March 13, 2012, 5:30pm – 8:00pm |
| Organizer: | Sponsored by Flexforce Professionals |
| Location: | Our meeting site is at the River Creek Country Club (http://www.rivercreekclub.com/), in Leesburg. The clubhouse is a 30,000 square foot building and is situated at the end of Olympic Boulevard. It provides an incredible natural gallery for guests to watch golfers finish the 18th hole and capture the breathtaking beauty of the historic Potomac River. The picture below is the view from the back of the Country Club. Directions to the site from Route 7 headed West: Turn right onto River Creek Parkway . Travel approximately 1.5 miles to the River Creek Development . Go through the security gate and follow Olympic Blvd to the end (you can let the attendant at the gate know that you are there for a meeting). You will see River Creek Club. Parking is on the right. |
| Price: | $30 Members ~ $20 Members in Transition ~ $40 Guests |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
Delegation is a critical foundation skill in managing the crushing workload most managers face today. “Doing more with less” requires managers to continuously make assignments, monitor progress, and coach for successful performance. Yet often managers adopt the attitude that they can do the work faster and better than those around them, the result being overload and burn out.
What can HR professionals do to coach managers to delegate workload to their staff and other resources? When managers are overloaded and face burnout, HR leaders need to intercede and provide them with the guidance and training to be effective at delegating work. Come to this interactive presentation and learn:
- The organizational barriers that prevent successful delegation
- The 5 critical bodies of information needed to determine the best delegation solution
- The critical decision points in analyzing work to be delegated and how to ensure that the decisions are based on sound analytics
Our Speaker:
Alice Waagen, PhD, has been teaching business leaders management skills for the past 15 years. During this time, she has amassed a large body of information on what works and what is ineffective in managing others. Alice has tapped her experience of successful management practices to create a set of self-guided worksheets and templates that HR professionals can use to coach their managers to better delegate work to others. Alice will share these management tools with the presentation participants, providing them with proven methods for delegating work. She will also share stories from the trenches of successful delegation assignments and ones that did not go exactly as planned.
Alice Waagen, PhD is president and founder of WORKFORCELEARNINGLLC, a leadership development company that since 1997 has provided managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment.
Prior to founding Workforce Learning, Alice served as Senior Director of Corporate Training for Amtrak in Washington DC and Director Education, Training & Development for Freddie Mac in McLean VA. In both of those positions, Alice created and implemented workplace development programs that served her internal clients from the shop floor to the executive suite.
Dr. Waagen has a passion for working with business leaders to identify their successful HR programs and practices as well as to develop new programs that increase leader effectiveness. In the past three years, more than 159 leaders from 34 different organizations have graduated from Alice’s unique leadership development workshop series.
Alice is frequently called on to present on topics of organizational learning best practices. She has spoken at the International Personnel Management Association (IPMA) annual HR conference, numerous chapter meeting of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), American Association for Training & Development (ASTD), the Association of Fundraising Professional (AFFP) and the American Legal Association (ALA). She has facilitated strategic leadership off sites for a number of Metro DC organizations including the Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), Haynes Boone Inc., NEA Member Benefits, and Janelia Farm Research Campus.
Alice earned a BS in Education from the New York State College at Buffalo, and MS and PhD degrees in Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Giving back to the community is also important to Alice. She currently serves on the Women Build Committee for Habitat for Humanity, Northern VA as well as on the Advisory Board for Marymount University Reston Campus. She recently began serving as avideoconference instructor for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
