In what could come as music to many a manager’s ears, the key to managing effectively is in not actually doing your work, but instead allocating it effectively amongst your employees. Okay, so in actuality this may be only partly true. Obviously as a manager there’s a vast range of determinants that influence the status of success you could reach. Still, a major string any manager should have to their bow is the power to effectively man-manage. An essential segment of man-management is delegation.
By bestowing delegation as a critical management skill, leaders can considerably decrease their workload and focus their attention either on assisting workers to be able to do the tasks or to work on more important and pressing ventures. Alternatively, there is a risk that that if a leader is too buried by their own workload, they will not be capable to delegate effectively and therefore enter an ostensibly everlasting downward spiral of work and stress, which will simply grow worse over time. Efficient delegation can fix this.
Delegation can also be delegated, by warranting a subordinate to make choices on the leader’s behalf, effectively shifting the choice-making control from one organizational level to one that is below. Read more