Over Assigning And Delegating Work - Part 1

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 16 May 2011

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This guidance recommends developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do…by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show, Overassigning Work, Part 1. Here we go. I was thinking the other day about Louise Charles and I used to work for
0:26.6	Louise Charles I've told a few stories about Louise at conferences and she I suppose I imagine she's probably not listening to this
0:34.6	podcast but if she were she'd probably be a little bit surprised because I haven't talked
0:39.0	to her about it but Louise is one of those those bosses that when I was working for her I respect her to quite a bit but I can't tell you I really enjoyed it because she gave me so much to do.
0:52.7	It was amazing.
0:53.6	I was, yeah.
0:54.4	And I had no time to think.
0:56.9	And yet, I look back and she is one of the most influential managers I have ever had.
1:04.0	Yeah, you know it's funny you mentioned that when I was writing this cast I wasn't thinking about my experiences at all
1:11.2	You know you mentioned Louise and then I immediately think about Colonel Texera 30 years ago.
1:15.0	Oh yeah, right?
1:17.0	That's exactly what happened, right?
1:18.0	We were all immediately double stressed, boom.
1:21.0	Yeah, that's a great point.
1:22.0	I mean, great bosses assign more work, delegate more work, create more work,
1:29.0	than their directs can actually do.
1:31.2	Okay, so, but I don't make sure I understand you.
1:35.1	They give more work, assign more work, delegate more work than the direct can actually
1:41.6	do. Yeah, some of that works are not going to get done.
1:44.8	Yeah, absolutely.
1:45.7	And you're okay with that.
1:47.1	Yeah, think about this.
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