How To Effectively Delegate

If you are honest, delegating effectively is one of the toughest challenges you face.  People avoid delegating for a number of reasons:

• Don’t understand the need to delegate
• Lack confidence in team to do what they require
• Don’t know how to delegate
• Tried and failed in the past so have a built in resistance
• Like doing a particular job so don't want to let go of it
• Don’t understand their role as a manager
• Frightened of making themselves seem easily replaced
• Think they have no time to delegate
• Have nobody to delegate to

So how can you be more effective at delegating?

1. Plan it in advance
2. Think exactly what you want done
3. Consider guidance needed
4. Brief appropriately and check understanding
5. Establish review dates and check understanding
6. Create a buffer period so that there is time for revisions as required
7. Delegate whole jobs, where possible
8. Inform others who are involved
9. Stand back, don’t hover
10. Recognise work may not be done exactly the way you would do it
11. Delegate responsibility as well as task