Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, How to Avoid Reverse Delegation. Here we go. We gotta start this guidance with a first a caveat. When's the last time we ever had a

caveat to our recommendations? Well that's the whole point it's a first we've never

done it before. To start immediately

with a caveat is a little unlike us. A little unlike us, but we're going to do it anyways.

We know there are times, folks, when you're going to want to do a favor for a direct. We know it's

natural and normal for you to make a call on their behalf or sketch out verbally

how you do structure a deck or intercede with a difficult client, right? We understand all that. No problem here.

Right. But what we're talking about here is avoiding the natural tendency to quote-unquote take back some of what you just assigned them.

When we just delegated something and they want some help, it's not effective to offer to do

part of their work. We know you're a nice guy, we know you're a nice lady, but this is not the time to be nice. There are other ways to be nice. We don't recommend you do it this way.

Yeah, and I think what most of us do is... other ways to be nice. We don't recommend you do it this way.

Yeah, and I think what most of us do is, well, I know I have, let's me put it that way.

I know I have felt the sense from the direct that they're being overburdened or they're being asked to do too much.

Not necessarily that it's too much amount of work.

It's just something that'll be too hard for them and they feel risk.

They feel uncomfortable.

And we feel, if you'll pardon the expression,

at fault for being the one that does that to them.

And if we care about it, or even if you don't care

about your directs terribly much,

you feel responsible, they feel at risk,

and you were doing everything just yesterday.

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