How Would You Rate Your Ability To Delegate?
Dan Mirgon, CEPA
Business and Financial Strategy - Helping you "Get Your End Game Right"
If you’re like most business owners, you probably give yourself a decent grade.
However, if you’re constantly finding yourself disappointed in people on your team, the problem may be less about them and more about your ability to delegate effectively.
For example, do any of these delegation styles sound familiar?
THE HOT POTATO DELEGATOR 3 The Hot Potato Delegator tires of a project or task and quickly tosses the activity to an employee to handle. Like a hot potato, you touch the problem briefly and pass it on to someone else quickly without much thought.
The problem is, the person you are giving the project to may not be clear on what you want them to do, which means the potato often falls back into your lap.
THE DELEGATION HIPPIE The Delegation Hippie is inspired by the free-loving spirits of the 1960s that believed in communal living, where there were no rules, and everybody was treated equally.
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The Delegation Hippie asks a subordinate to handle a task but fails to provide clear lines of authority and control. The employee is left wondering if they need to check in with their boss before deciding on a course of action and are unclear about the budget they have been given to work with.
THE FALSE DELEGATOR ??The False Delegator is the person who asks an employee to help with a project.
The employee is left with the impression they are being given broad decision-making authority to complete the project, while the manager actually wants to be kept abreast of the possible solutions her employee is considering and wants to retain the final decision-making authority.
The employee decides on a course of action without the consent of their manager, and problems arise.
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