✦Teams · 11 records · for a shared workspaceDelegate properly

Most bad delegation is really bad handover: the work goes across without the context or the authority to finish it, comes back wrong, and gets quietly reabsorbed. This makes the handover explicit and sets a rule about not taking things back.

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Three things handed over and not taken back Month 3

Handed over with the context and the authority to finish.

Decide what goes Week 4

Including things I am good at, not just what I dislike.

  • List everything only I currently doDo firstDay 5
  • Mark the three somebody else could ownDo firstWeek 2
  • Write what good looks like for eachDo firstWeek 4

Hand over and stay out Month 3

Context, authority, and a rule about taking it back.

  • Hand over the first one properly, in writingDo firstWeek 5
  • Agree what they can decide without askingDo firstWeek 6
  • Review at three months: what came back, and why?Month 3

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  • Check in without taking overweekly
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It comes back because of the handover

Work returns wrong when the context and the authority did not go with it. Somebody who does not know why it matters, or what they may decide, will either check in constantly or guess.\n\nIf they do it differently and the outcome is right, leave it. Insisting on your method is how delegation becomes supervision.

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The things you are best at and somebody else could learn, not just the things you dislike. Handing over only the unpleasant work is how delegation gets a reputation, and it never develops anybody.
Almost always because the context and the authority did not go with it. Somebody who does not know why it matters or what they are allowed to decide will check in constantly or guess, and both look like a reason to take it back.
Let them, unless the outcome is wrong. Insisting on your method is how delegation becomes supervision, and the plan has a note about it because this is the moment where most attempts quietly fail.
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