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delegating but there’s an obstacle that they can’t get around. This
manager will make excuses like the following:
No one can do it better than me
I don’t have time to train someone to do it
I’ll just have to do it over myself
My team is already over tasked
I don’t have anyone on my team who can handle this task
If any of those statements have crossed your lips, this post couldn’t come
any sooner. It’s time for you to release your fears. Fear will destroy your
ability as a manager. Your success is dependent on using the strategy of
delegation. In the next post we’ll review a tool to help you start your
delegation strategy.
You realize the benefits and the need for
every manager to use a delegation
strategy. First steps can be scary. Perhaps
an absence of delegation has gotten you to
this point. It’s difficult to adjust and change
when your experience is telling you
otherwise. One of the biggest obstacles to
trying something new is having a plan to
do it. Simply convincing you of the power
of delegation is hardly enough to make the
transition easy from the way you managed
in the past to this foreign style of management that you are not
accustomed. The Delegation Risk tool is designed to help you put your
strategy in perspective and protect those concerns you have that prevent
you from managing through delegation.
The Delegation Risk tool (DRT) is a way for you to assess the level of risk
in a decision to delegate a task. Using the tool will provide you with
perspective and peace of mind. Figure 1 is the Delegation Risk tool. The
tools should be applied separately for each of three categories.
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