Episode 115 - Eight Steps to Effective Delegation

<h2 data-pm-slice="0 0 []"><strong>Summary</strong></h2> <p class="">This week we explore how showing the right amount of emotion can improve the impact you have on others and their willingness to invest in your ideas.</p> <h2><br /> <strong>Transcript</strong></h2> <p class="">Hello and welcome to episode 115 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we bring research to life in your leadership. In this episode we’re exploring eight steps to effective delegation.</p> <p class="">There are a whole host of reasons why people don’t delegate. Perhaps they are worried about quality of the results. Or they just don’t have the time to delegate. Many have had bad experiences with delegation going wrong in the past. However, effective delegation is at the core of great leadership. The rate we delegate sets the pace at which we progress.</p> <p class="">Let’s start by with five initial questions to answer before you even start delegating:</p> <ol data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Does it need to be done? Organisations are generally great at starting new things and terrible at shutting down old things. So before you even delegate, consider whether you can eliminate the task altogether.</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Does it need to be done by me? There are some things which you can’t fully delegate. This can include financial approval limits or performance management accountabilities. But, truth be told, you can probably delegate more responsibilities than you expect.</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Does someone else have capacity? If there is no one with capacity to delegate to, then you either need to free up capacity or keep doing it yourself. Rather than just stopping here, I encourage you to work with each of your people to make sure they are focusing on the right things and have the resources they need to be efficient. This might just free up the capacity that you need to delegate.</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Does someone else have capability? It could be that no one in your team currently has the skills required