Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, delegate your reporting, part two. Here we go. So earlier we talked about why to delegate reporting and why and there's just a number of reasons besides just getting work off our

plate right there's managerial economics 101 yeah our directs broadening of our directs

experience exposure of directs to our boss and to our peers and the fact that you know delegating

reporting is relatively low risk so hopefully we convince folks that

they're gonna if there's wisdom in delegating reporting so now let's talk about how to prep for delegating reporting.

What do we got to do to figure this out?

Yeah, we get a whole section in the cast on this, right?

But it's not a lot of work.

You know, in the past, there have been times when we've skipped some of the simple steps and people have said to us you know

Hey give us the details. We like the details right so we hope this is an overkill, but look in this part prepping for delegating your

reporting responsibilities, right? What we're talking about here, it's all going to be done by you at your

desk one morning or one afternoon, preferably in the week when you're going to

start having one-on-ones and start doing the delegations themselves right?

Okay so we just don't go up to our direction and just hand them this this furball of

reporting there's actually some work involved in doing an effective delegation.

Furball, huh? I like that.

Okay, so yeah, it's just going to take a little bit of prep, but it's not much. We just want to walk

you through the steps and we're not going to gloss over it the way so many

management development people do. So look, what we've got one, two, three, four,

it looks like four steps, four things you've got to do.

The first one, the four are, you got an inventory

you're reporting, what you're responsible for.

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