Delegating To The Floor

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

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🗓️ 5 March 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This guidance describes how to help individual contributors handle an overload in work.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, delegating to the floor. Here we go. Mark, what do you do when you're a frontline manager and you get more work to do?
0:25.6	Oh, you whine and complain.
0:27.2	I think.
0:28.2	I tried that.
0:29.2	It didn't work very well.
0:30.2	I just did a quick survey.
0:31.2	I have a hundred guys I know that are front-line managers and what they do is complain.
0:35.0	Oh actually no I'm sorry they used to whine and complain now they brag and they say I'm totally swamped at work.
0:42.0	Totally swamped. I can't youamped at work. Totally swamped.
0:43.0	I'm swamped.
0:45.0	Yeah, it's said with a shake of a head and a funny voice like,
0:48.0	I'm swamped.
0:49.0	I'm important.
0:50.0	I'm going to be CEO someday.
0:51.0	I'm practicing to be CEO now because I'm so long I can't you know I
0:53.4	can't even breathe it's so bad. You imagine the CEO that just that's that's the
0:59.2	response they just they just take it all upon themselves and just say I'm swamped too much to do.
1:04.0	Yeah so I guess we're not going to get that product out this this quarter.
1:06.7	Yeah I can't trust anybody working for me I gotta do it all myself here.
1:10.5	One man band. I'll just I'll just postpone that meeting with the analyst. They won't care.
1:15.0	Yeah, we could always be.
1:17.0	Imagine if you met with a bunch of investors at the Waldorf of New York and you're
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