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Delegate to Significantly Increase Your Success

Guest post by: Anne Bachrach

Article Overview: Delegation refers to the assignment of responsibility to another person in order for that one to carry out a chosen project. It allows staff members to develop their skills to full potential and entrusts authority to someone else. You are giving that person the right to act independently, under the power of your name and your firm. You are held responsible in delegation because you are recommending this subordinate as a capable leader. The staff member has the right to react to situations, making his or her own decisions, and not being required to report back to you for verification or advice.

Delegate to Significantly Increase Your Success

Delegation refers to the assignment of responsibility to another person in order for that one to carry out a chosen project. It allows staff members to develop their skills to full potential and entrusts authority to someone else. You are giving that person the right to act independently, under the power of your name and your firm. You are held responsible in delegation because you are recommending this subordinate as a capable leader. The staff member has the right to react to situations, making his or her own decisions, and not being required to report back to you for verification or advice.

How to Choose the Right Delegate

You will deal with delegation at some point, so it's best to learn the criteria upon which a delegate is chosen. The first consideration in choosing a delegate is that they must know what the superior wants. The successful delegate must understand the project at hand. Though the delegate may not understand the specifics of the task at hand, he or she is capable of getting those details and then fulfilling the project without any thorough explanation. The subordinate must know the type of managerial personality that the superior possesses and what methods he or she would use to complete the assignment.

The next factor to consider is whether or not the delegate has the authority to achieve the assignment as stated. Authority involves not only authorization from a higher office, but also a subordinate successfully stepping into the role of an authority figure. The superior must first determine just how much clearance the delegate has, before commissioning them to an assignment. Usually, the superior will make it very clear if the delegate is entrusted with total power. By the time the superior trusts a delegate enough to lend them this authority trust has already been established.

The final factor to consider is if the delegate knows how to accomplish a task without special instruction. The nature of the task as well as the sources of information may still need to be communicated. If a delegate lacks basic knowledge on how to search for information and apply new information to a given setting, then an authority figure might assume a delegate is not ready for such responsibility.

Formalized Advice

It is important to remember that the more you attempt to avail yourself to the delegate for help, the less delegation you are actually doing. One way to counteract this potential problem is to formalize any conversations that take place between delegate and authority figure. In addition, have the delegate create procedures around everything they do so that if they do it infrequently, they don't have to come to you the next time they might need assistance. Also, it is nice to have procedures if the delegate is out of the office or if you would have to terminate them.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Learn more about how to work with people and to make educated decisions that will help you on the road to success. Delegate as much as you can so you become more effective and efficient at those things that only you can do and are best for you to do to be more productive and successful. You will start to experience how great it feels to just do what you are good at and work only on those things that produce the results you want.

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