How To Effectively Delegate

For many managers delegating effectively is one of the toughest challenges they face.

Reasons Why Managers Don’t Delegate

• Don’t understand the need to delegate

• Lack confidence in team to do what they require

• Don’t know how to delegate

• Tried and failed in the past so have a built in resistance

• Like doing a particular job so don’t want to let go of it

• Don’t understand their role as a manager

• Frightened of making themselves seem easily replaced

• Think they have no time to delegate

• Have nobody to delegate to

How to Delegate Effectively

• Plan it in advance

• Think exactly what you want done

• Consider guidance needed

• Brief appropriately and check understanding

• Establish review dates and check understanding

• Create a buffer period so that there is time for revisions as required

• Delegate whole jobs, where possible

• Inform others who are involved

• Stand back, don’t hover

• Recognise work may not be done exactly the way you would do it

• Delegate responsibility as well as task

In truth delegating effectively can transform the results that you deliver. So what action could you take to start delegating effectively?

About the Author Duncan Brodie

Since 2006 I’ve worked with in excess of 8,000 accountants and professionals in workshops, seminars and one to one helping them land their next jobs and become better leaders, presenters and business partners. Before that I spent 25 years in accountancy climbing the career ladder from Payments Clerk to FD. I’m a CIMA Fellow, Certified Professional Coach and Team Coach Facilitator.

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Article Marketing says 29 January 2009

Great tips on delegation. Some people find it hard but it is necessary.

It’s worth looking again at the points Duncan has made, and planning how you will overcome you inner resitance.

Lynne Lee

Stewart Parizo says 21 March 2010

Wise leaders understand one of their primary work would be to manual their own business and wherever appropriate escape through workouts. When people perform exactly the same work, the same way these people get the same results and this program often propels their own human brain in to neutral. Lots of people become less likely to identify changes in the environment as well as not as likely in order to question exactly how as well as why. Stuck within routines are assumptions concerning the work and how it operates, assumptions all of us often error for the reality when the world changes faster than our assumptions regarding it, danger is located in the top chair. 1 approach to eliminate harmful workouts in a organization is to start communicating regarding strategy regularly. Metwell.com, a Management Consulting firm in Atlanta motivates agencies in order to tap important people at all amounts in order to adapt method and to get with each other for the official conversation associated with technique at the very least each fraction. It doesn’t take greater than a couple of hours in a well-designed method to find out fundamental problems as well as workouts that no more help to make good sense.

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