Effective delegation
Delegate to increase your ability to deliver the results your business depends on to grow and thrive
Five levels of delgation
- Level 1: Assess and Report
- Set expectations
- Clearly define the task
- Explain their role as well as your own, and
- Discuss deadlines and check-in points
- Level 2: Recommend
- Develop possible solutions
- Recommend and justify the best one
- Level 3: Develop Action Plan
- Clearly define the task
- Explain their role as well as your own, and
- Discuss deadline and check-in points
- Level 4: Make The Decision
- Make sure they understand that they are responsible for Level 3 work, but that you trust them to make the decision
- Make sure they know that you are available to coach and support them, but you expect them to act independently
- Monitor progress regularly by asking for regular check-ins, reviewing the status of the projects, and warning them when you sense problems, and
- Be ready to reward great results
- Level 5: Full Delegation
- Make sure they understand that you trust them to decide, act and follow-through
- Tell them to report back to you with exceptions and unique problems, but otherwise, it's their task and they are fully accountable for it's successful completion, and
- Be ready to rewar
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