Delegate & Create Team Ownership In-person Workshop

Learn to delegate effectively as a tech leader. Shift from doing everything yourself to creating real ownership and accountability within your team.

Delegation isn’t about assigning tasks when you’re overwhelmed. It’s a powerful tool you have for creating ownership, developing your team, and shifting your focus from outputs to outcomes.

This in-person workshop gives you an approach to delegation that builds accountability, grows your people, and frees you to do the work only you can do.

The Problem

Delegation sounds simple in theory. In practice, it’s where you might get stuck:

• You know you should delegate more but “it’s quicker to do it myself” keeps winning
• When you do delegate, you either micromanage the process or completely disconnect
• Your team waits for you to make decisions, assign work, and review everything
• You’re still thinking in terms of personal output rather than team outcome
• You confuse being accountable with being responsible so you end up doing both

What happens is you become the bottleneck. Your team never develops real ownership, and you’re stuck doing work that takes up too much of your time so there’s no space left for the strategic stuff.

Who This Is For

You’re a Tech Lead / Team Lead / Engineering Manager:

• Who knows you should delegate more but you worry that delegating means compromising on quality and loosing visibility
• Wanting to grow your team and that means letting them own tasks but you haven’t figured out how to hand things over properly

What You’ll Walk Away With

• Understand the shift from owning the “how” to owning the “what” and “why” - and how to operate accordingly
• The Eisenhower Matrix for delegation. A practical framework to decide what you do, what you delegate, and what you eliminate entirely
• Learn ownership-building techniques so you can delegate in a way that creates genuine team accountability, not just more tickets

How It Works

• 3-hour, In-person workshop (max. 12 attendees)
• Teaching block
• Solo/group activities
• Q&A with Andrew

About Andrew Murphy

Andrew is a tech geek and tech leadership educator. With 20+ years in the tech industry, starting out as a developer, he’s passionate about bridging the gap between tech and people leadership. Previously he has led and grown engineering teams in start-ups and enterprises.

Details

• Date: Tues 4 August 2026
• Time: 9am - 12pm AEST
• Where: Melbourne (Location TBC)
• Investment: $650 AUD (could you use your learning and development allowance?)