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Today's topic, Assign Work and Reporting.

Today we talk about assigning both the reporting of work and the work itself when delegating.

Here we go. Well if you're not a manager you might be surprised what us managers think about it when we assign work to our directs

They may be surprised about a lot of things exactly. Yeah, that's true.

If you're not a manager, you probably assume, hey,

you gave me the work, I know it's mine, I'll do it,

it's my job after all, easy to be a him or her, right?

Way easier to be a manager, right?

Yeah, absolutely. He just gives away the work and we have to do it. Yeah. Yeah, and fortunately that's not always what we assume. Even with top performers, right? I mean, there are times when we're on the hook for it we don't give away work that we're not

on hook for.

And you know and by the way the proof of this is the high sea managers that the perfectionist managers

who do do it themselves right and if it really was easy to give a work

away to trust the people who work for you all the time to know that they would do it

well enough or the worst standard in the world as good as me, if we knew that we'd give away more work, right?

Yeah, but managers don't.

That's a great point.

Right, so those who do give it away, you know, they think things like, will you get done?

Mm-hmm.

Will you do it well?

You know, will they do it on time?

How am I going to know the status between now and what it's due?

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