Delegation

Delegation is the skill of motivating and training your team or employees to realize their full potential. It is primarily about trusting others with your authority. The objective of delegation is to get the job done by someone else. With delegation, the person that has been delegated with the work will have the authority to react to various situations without referring back to you. Delegation helps people grow underneath you in an organization and thus …

…delegating. Often they will have been promoted because they were good at what they were doing before their promotion. This brings the temptation to continue to try to do their previous job, rather than developing their new subordinates to do the job well. References Blair, G. (n.d.). The Art of Delegation. Retrieved May 22, 2005 from: http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art5.html?http://oldeee.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art5.html