At Technalink, we value those who embrace the role of being a compassionate leader. One of the best ways to achieve this in the workplace is to delegate tasks effectively. However, good delegation is often one of the more challenging skills to master. If you want to be a compassionate leader who uses delegation effectively, here are some tips to remember.
Don’t Micromanage
Often, managers will have their preferred way of doing things, but if that method is just that—a preference—it is better to let people complete tasks in the style to which they are accustomed. It can be tempting for people to micromanage a task and try to encourage people to do it exactly the way they would have done it, but insisting there’s only one right way to do something can kill ingenuity and even innovation.
Choose The Right People
One of the top causes of frustration in task delegation is when the wrong tasks are delegated to the wrong people. For example, charging a top programmer in the company to collect the dry cleaning of management while an intern is given an important coding project would be negatively viewed by most of the staff. A compassionate leader looks at what the task requires and chooses the person who could bring the most to that task, as opposed to getting someone overqualified or, worse yet, using a task as punishment.
Using Delegation As Avoidance
If there is a task you don’t want to do, but you give it to assign it to someone else, such as terminating someone’s employment or having someone else come in to resolve an inter-office conflict, this can create friction not just from the person doing the task, but from those people in the workplace who see you avoiding a task by making someone else do it.
Delegation should never be about evading responsibilities, and it can harm workplace morale when used in this way.
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