Training Module 5

RESULTS Group Leader Training

Delegate-Plan

The Delegate-Plan module introduces the foundational elements of planning group activities, making and delegating assignments, and communicating for action. Using these tools helps clarify and encourage accountability.

Your Learning Objectives:

• Communicate effectively as leader in a way that intensifies meaning, encourages action, creates accountability, and inspires.
• Develop confidence and skill in delegating and assigning work as well as following up
• Learn ways to lead group to set and manage to goals and plans and to successfully achieve results
• Learn to communicate for action
• Explore ways to:
  • recognize phases of group development
  • encourage learning and growth through assignments, coaching and acknowledgement
  • engage advocate group in planning and setting goals
  • hold group and group members accountable

Your Learning Sequence:  (to be completed in 3 weeks)

• Overview of Learning Plan
• Group Dynamics, Goal-setting, Planning, Delegation, Accountability – All for Results
   This document will help you achieve the objectives below:    
  • Group Dynamics – Does your group simply weather change . . . or seek to harness its power?
  • Goal-setting and planning – Set expectations with advocates. Set individual and group goals to plan and achieve great outcomes.​
  • Delegation/Assuming Accountability – Match assignments to readiness of advocates. Vary advocate assignments over time to develop transferable skills and maintain interest and challenge and to build bench strength.
• Review “The Speech Acts” by Seven Stones Leadership. This document will help you achieve the objective below:
  • Communication that Produces Results – Make clear and specific requests with purposes and context. Use requests to take on/commit to actions; review results.​
• Practice effective goal setting, delegation and communication for action in group meetings
  • Welcome and Agenda for Meeting
  • Check-in
  • Review successes, achievements and progress on commitments
  • Describe new work and collaborate to determine approach
  • Organize assignments going forward
  • Review next steps and commitments
  • Appreciation and thanks​
• Review/learn Advocate roles and tasks to:
  • Orient new advocates and provide appropriate assignments
  • Develop and advance advocates at increasing levels of engagement. Intentionally make or change assignments to build depth in group and progress advocate skills.
• Participate in weekly group leader meetings led by Regional Coordinator
• Note to participate in annual January group planning