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Even though you have now delegated your task to someone else, it’s important to recognise that since it originated with you, that you retain overall accountability for its successful completion.
When it comes to taking accountability, you’ll want to take a balanced approach. On one end of the scale, you don’t want to totally abandon the task or the person you’ve delegated it to. Equally, you want to avoid micro-managing the person.
If you regularly check-in with the person that you’ve delegated to, you can ask them for feedback not only on how things are going with the task and whether they require support but also, you can ask them for feedback on how they feel about your interactions and this can help guide you.
Your activity for today is to spend a few minutes preparing a proposed schedule for checking-in with the person you’ve delegated to, then finding a time to meet with them:
- Agree a schedule of check-ins, timelines and deadlines;
- Consider that they’ll likely need more time than you to complete the task;
- Focus on results, not method;
- If it’s not going well, take opportunities to teach instead of reclaiming ownership; and
- Understand their mindset - will they take ownership and drive things forward whilst involving you? Or will they isolate themselves and exclude you?
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Want to share feedback about the podcast? It would be much appreciated. 3 min survey here:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N72QP67
Even though you have now delegated your task to someone else, it’s important to recognise that since it originated with you, that you retain overall accountability for its successful completion.
When it comes to taking accountability, you’ll want to take a balanced approach. On one end of the scale, you don’t want to totally abandon the task or the person you’ve delegated it to. Equally, you want to avoid micro-managing the person.
If you regularly check-in with the person that you’ve delegated to, you can ask them for feedback not only on how things are going with the task and whether they require support but also, you can ask them for feedback on how they feel about your interactions and this can help guide you.
Your activity for today is to spend a few minutes preparing a proposed schedule for checking-in with the person you’ve delegated to, then finding a time to meet with them:
- Agree a schedule of check-ins, timelines and deadlines;
- Consider that they’ll likely need more time than you to complete the task;
- Focus on results, not method;
- If it’s not going well, take opportunities to teach instead of reclaiming ownership; and
- Understand their mindset - will they take ownership and drive things forward whilst involving you? Or will they isolate themselves and exclude you?