Thoughtful Empowerment.
Use PowerTaker to empower teams to achieve distributed control, enhancing their status, power, and control.
Struggling to decide who should do what? Use Agilibo's PowerTaker’s to clarify responsibilities, foster employee engagement, and promote controlled self-organization with clear decision-making and value alignment.
Delegation and Empowerment Module
Helps both new and experienced managers master the art of management by finding the right balance between authoritative control and complete autonomy.
Context dependent Delegation: Delegate as much as possible but not too far where chaos might unfold.
Shades of Delegation: Delegation exists on a spectrum between absolute control and complete freedom.
Delegate Step-by-Step: Hand over accountability to other people in a controlled and gradual way.
Empowerment-Distributed Control: Aim for a more powerful system, not better-controlled people using PowerTaker.
Action after Retrospective
When teams identify delegation opportunities during retrospectives, PowerTaker’s AI proactively suggests playing a session to address and refine the Delegation Board. This ensures responsibilities and authority levels are clearly defined and agreed upon.
Uncertainity during Daily Scrum
During the Daily Scrum, if unclear responsibilities arise, the AI references the relevant Delegation Board items, providing immediate clarity on roles and decision-making power. This empowers teams to stay focused on their Sprint Goal while embracing self-organization with confidence.
Playing PowerTaker
PowerTaker empowers teams to make collaborative decisions by using a clear delegation framework, ensuring transparency and engagement. With tools like Delegation Poker, managers can align team input and clarify roles to find the right balance of control and autonomy.
Delegation Board
The Delegation Board in PowerTaker is inspired by Management 3.0 principles, offering a clear and visual way to define and communicate delegation levels within key decision areas. It allows teams to identify decision boundaries across seven levels of delegation, ensuring transparency and empowering self-organization. By providing a clear overview of who holds authority and to what extent, the board fosters alignment and enables teams to make decisions efficiently and collaboratively.
How to Play PowerTaker?
Each team plays this game differently, so you can follow some of the more common rules we’re sharing here or you can make up your own. It’s all about organizing how you and your team look at delegation and self-organization.
Start by making a list of pre-defined cases or situations in which you want to create a delegation policy, establishing who has what influence. This can range from project design and authority to hiring new team members. The PowerTaker offers some basic to start using built-in Templates and also Artificial Intelligence (AI) suggest using the data from your Team's Sprint events such as Sprint Retrospective or Daily Scrum.
Team members should be organized in groups of three to seven people. Each teammate gets a set of cards numbered 1 through 7, signifying the Seven Levels of Delegation:
1. Tell: I will tell them
2. Sell: I will try and sell it to them
3. Consult: I will consult and then decide
4. Agree: We will agree together
5. Advise: I will advise but they decide
6. Inquire: I will inquire after they decide
7. Delegate: I will fully delegate
Team members will repeat the following steps for each pre-defined case:
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The facilitator picks out a situation to read aloud OR he tells a story from personal experience.
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Each player chooses one of the seven delegation cards privately, reflecting on how she would delegate the decision in that particular situation.
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Once all players have decided, they can then reveal their selected cards.
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Everyone earns points according to the value of their card, except the players that are the “highest minority” (see below).
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Let the people with the highest and the lowest cards explain the reasoning behind their choices.
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You can then create a Delegation Board to show the results of your consensus.
The Rule of the Highest Minority speaks to the idea of delegating as far as possible without taking it too far. You may have a player who always chooses seven, if he is alone in his choice, that gets thrown out as an option, as do his points. Now if three or four people all chose seven, that is the majority meaning each of them earns seven points.
Some also play that the Lowest Minority gets no points either, like a boss who always wants to maintain control or an indecisive teammate who doesn’t want any authority.
Vote With Other Team Members
PowerTaker enables teams to vote on decisions collaboratively, fostering transparency and shared ownership. By involving all members, it ensures that every voice is heard and decisions reflect collective input.