When it's easier to do it yourself than to delegate or get the result you need from your employees

The two most common traps for a manager look identical: "it's easier to just do it myself." In one case — because explaining takes longer than doing it. In the other — because they've already tried delegating it a few times and the result was disappointing.

In both cases the manager stays overloaded. The team works below its potential. And the company pays for its managers doing the work instead of managing it.

The «Setting Tasks and Delegating Authority» training is a practical program after which managers know how to set tasks so they actually get done, and delegate so they don’t have to redo the work.

Why tasks don’t get done and delegation doesn’t work

Most problems with a team’s follow-through aren’t problems with the team. They’re problems with how the manager sets the task.

When a task is set unclearly, the employee does what they understood. Or whatever’s convenient. When a manager doesn’t take into account who they’re setting the task for — a newcomer, a veteran, a motivated person, someone who’s burned out — they give the same briefing to different people and then wonder why the results are different.

It’s the same story with delegation. The manager hands off a task — and either keeps controlling everything themselves (so why delegate it at all?), or lets go entirely and gets back a result that has to be redone. Both scenarios kill any desire to delegate at all.

The result: the manager is stuck doing operational work. Strategic tasks sit waiting. The team doesn’t develop. Scaling becomes impossible.

Who this program is for

Managers whose employees "do the wrong thing" — even though the task seemed to have been explained clearly. The problem is usually in exactly how the task was set

Managers who don't delegate — because "it's faster to do it myself" or "I'll have to redo it anyway." This isn't a question of trust, it's a question of technique

Managers who tried delegating and were disappointed — the task was handed off, the authority formally exists, but there's no result. It's important to understand at which step the process broke down

Companies that are scaling or moving to a new level — when a handful of managers can no longer carry everything themselves, and management needs to be built through the team instead

What's included in the program

Module 1 — Setting the Task

Topic 1. Employee typology and setting the task

  • How typology affects the quality of task-setting and the outcome of execution
  • Workshop exercise: «Identify the type of employee you’re setting the task for»

Topic 2. Why an employee’s low performance directly depends on the quality of how the task was set

Topic 3. How to prepare to brief employees

  • 5 steps to setting a task well
  • The key pitfalls in preparing a briefing
  • Workshop exercise: «Preparing to set the task»

Topic 4. How to set a task correctly to achieve the maximum result

  • Workshop exercise: «Setting the task»

Topic 5. The specifics of setting tasks for different types of employees

  • How to set a task for a new employee
  • How to set a task for an employee who has lost motivation
  • How to set a task for an employee who isn’t a direct report
  • Workshop exercise: video case study analysis

Topic 6. Difficult situations when setting a task

  • What to do with an employee’s objections
  • Why some employees «freeze up» when a task is set
  • How to set a task remotely
  • What to do if an employee did the task poorly

Topic 7. A library of fatal mistakes in setting a task

Module 2 — Delegating Authority from A to Z

Topic 1. The advantages and disadvantages of delegation

Topic 2. The reasons for resistance to delegation

  • Why employees resist being delegated to
  • Why managers are disappointed by the results of delegation

Topic 3. The delegation method

  • What can and can’t be delegated — the «Choice Crossroads»
  • To whom? The «Choosing the Right Person to Delegate To» matrix
  • How? The «Assessing and Reducing Delegation Risk» matrix
  • Workshop exercise: choose a task to delegate

Topic 4. The Adizes approach to delegation

Topic 5. How to evaluate the result of delegation without killing the employee’s motivation to keep going

Topic 6. A guide to fixing delegation mistakes

  • Workshop exercise: group work

Workshop exercise: «Hand off the authority»

Support after the training

The hardest moment in any training isn’t the session itself — it’s the first week afterward. The tools have been handed over, but the very first real situation doesn’t go according to the textbook: an employee won’t accept the delegated task, pushes back, does the wrong thing — and it’s not clear exactly what went wrong or where the technique broke down.

That’s exactly what the support is for. After the training, a shared chat is set up with the trainer and all the participants. The trainer reviews real delegation cases, answers questions live, and shares additional materials. Participants can bring their own situation and get it reviewed — not «go read chapter 5,» but a concrete answer from someone who knows the methodology from the inside.

It’s a safety net for the period when the new tools haven’t become habit yet.

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A shared chat with the trainer and participants

At least 4 delegation case reviews from the trainer

Real-time answers to questions and analysis of participants’ difficult situations

Additional materials

The program's lead trainer

Александр Паньков

Александр Паньков

Co-Founder компании A.maze.S

What changes after the program

Managers stop having to redo work — tasks are set more precisely, employees understand what's expected, and the result matches what's actually needed

The load on managers drops: tasks that used to stay "with the manager" get handed off to the team with a managed result

The team starts to grow: when a manager delegates correctly, employees take on more responsibility and develop

Managers free up time for strategic work — not because "you have to trust people," but because they know how to build management through the team

The number of conflicts and misunderstandings drops: clear task-setting removes most of the "I thought you meant something else" situations

Program format

Preparation

  • We finalize the brief with the client
  • The trainer conducts short interviews with participants — to work with the company’s real situations, not abstract case studies

Group

Up to 20 people per group

Modules

Each module runs for 6 clock hours.

Modules can be booked separately or together.

Booking the full program comes with support included for free.

Offline

In this format, the program runs for 2 consecutive days.

The training is held on the client’s premises.

 

Online

The training can run over 2 or 4 days (in short sessions). There can be breaks between sessions.

The training runs over Zoom, with cameras and microphones on, so participants can practice the tools hands-on.

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