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Coaching for Leaders

413: Effective Delegation of Authority, with Hassan Osman

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Hassan Osman: Effective Delegation of Authority

Hassan is a project management office leader at Cisco, where he leads a team of over 150 project and program managers on delivering complex projects across the world. He’s also served as a management consultant at Ernst & Young (now EY), where he led projects and programs for the largest enterprises.

He’s the author of Effective Delegation of Authority: A (Really) Short Book for New Managers About How to Delegate Work Using a Simple Delegation Process. In this episode, Hassan and I discuss the three stages of delegation, the critical importance of planning, and how to leverage delegation as a development opportunity.

Also impressive is the ten books Hassan has published while working full-time as a manager at a Fortune 100 company. He teaches others how to do it on his Writer on the Side podcast.

Key Points

  • Before you begin the delegation process, decide on the outcomes you need and the right person to get you there.
  • Set expectations for goals, not actions.
  • Use checkpoints to ensure progress and adjust frequency for experience and visibility.
  • Summarize delegation meetings in writing after they occur.
  • The real work of managers is to define the work, before it starts.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Delegation. It's an essential management skill but one a lot of us struggle with.

0:06.0

In this episode, a simple process to delegate effectively for results while developing the talents of others. for Maximizing Human Potential.

0:25.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:30.0

This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac.

0:35.0

Leaders aren't born, their main.

0:38.0

And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:43.6

One of the key skills leaders and managers are called upon a do is to delegate.

0:51.5

It is a skill that many of us struggle with. It is one a lot of us have not been

0:57.7

taught how to do well. We've learned in many cases a bit by trial by fire in delegating well and today I am so glad we're

1:07.2

putting the attention of this episode to how to delegate effectively.

1:13.0

If that's something you also have struggled with a bit,

1:15.6

or perhaps you're in the process of leading others

1:19.1

who need to learn this skill as well.

1:20.8

I know today's guest is going to be very insightful for you. I'm so glad to

1:25.4

welcome back to the show Hassan Osman. Hassan is a project management

1:29.4

office leader at Cisco where he leads a team of over 150 project and program managers on delivering complex

1:37.0

projects across the world.

1:39.0

He's also served as a management consultant at Ernst & Young, now EY,

1:43.1

where he led projects and programs for the largest enterprises.

1:46.9

He's the author of several books for leaders

1:50.2

and most recently the book Effective Delegation of Authority,

1:54.2

a really short book for new managers about how to delegate work

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