Six reasons why we delegate badly

11th September 2018
  1. We lack clarity about what we should be doing, and what we shouldn’t be doing. (So we often try and stick our noses into everything.)
  2. We don’t know how to trust the people who are available to us with big, non-routine responsibilities (leading to the usually futile wish for “better” people).
  3. We don’t know how to design and frame the outcome we want in a way that inspires commitment and enthusiasm.
  4. We don’t know what distance to keep between us and the other, and so veer between micromanagement and benign neglect.
  5. We don’t know how to have the awkward conversations that sustain the other with the right mix of encouragement and challenge.
  6. We pay too little attention to the systems (tangible and intangible) that buffet us from out beyond our modest zones of control.

It was tackling each of these issues that led me to write my book, Deep and Deliberate Delegation: A New Art for Unleashing Talent and Winning Back Time.