How do I lead when there's a need for delegation and empowerment?

Clients ask me, "How do I delegate and gauge how much autonomy to give to individuals on my team?
How do I best navigate our conversation that often feels like a grey area and I don't always know how to handle some of the complexities?

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Here you will find a model and worksheets to breakdown the level of motivation, skill, knowledge and experience of each individual and to know how much autonomy is best.
With this deeper intelligence, you conduct skillful conversations.

  • The Human Centered Leader

    Current leadership research shows that credibility, genuineness and authenticity are important characteristics that followers want from their leaders. Best practices are shared.

  • Defining the Empowerment Level

    A tool with worksheets that evaluates a team members knowledge, skills, experience and motivation. Sets up the leader for a meaningful conversation around delegating and promotion.

  • The Anatomy of a Skillful Delegation Conversation

    Having the conversation for commitment with individuals and teams. Defines the conditions of satisfaction.

Does this sound like you...

  • You struggle to know how to evaluate members of your team to delegate fairly.

  • You’d like to know how to offer each team member the right level of oversight, mentoring and coaching.

  • You have members of your team asking for more responsibility and you are not certain that they are ready to receive it; you'd like the rationale to discuss it with them.

  • You’d like an easy to use process that allows you to skillfully assess each person’s readiness for more autonomy.

  • You'd benefit from a process that guides individuals and teams to firmly commit to the tasks of a project.

What you’ll receive:

  • This is a training course that can be conducted with a team from a company, or join a class. The materials are forthright and targeted. It includes detailed worksheets.

  • The models, structures and worksheets that give you a deeper intelligence to the individuals on your team.

  • The method by which to offer greater autonomy with confidence.

  • Conditions of Satisfaction - a process to gain full commitment from your team when kicking off a project.

What to Know Before You Enroll...

  • The course is self-study with pre-reading and pre-recorded lessons.

  • This can be adapted to a facilitated workshop.

  • If you'd like further support, one-to-one coaching is available.

About Me

Martha Gelnaw

Hi there!

My name is Martha and I’m a communication coach based in New York City. Over my 20+ years coaching, I’ve found that I enjoy supporting people to get their messages and their voice heard – and acted upon. This way, they can make a contribution and enjoy their work with great comfort and ease.

Our work is to build trust in our understanding and to create confidence in our listener’s knowledge so that they will align and take right action. How we appeal to others and their values is crucial. It’s not transactional - it’s relational - relationships matter.

I offer coaching and courses that are well-suited to help leaders, emerging leaders, young professionals, students and women express themselves with a true and powerful presence aligned with their deepest values and desires.