The Essentials: Delegating Effectively

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Careers, Progress, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Workplace, Human, Management, Resources, Gender, Women, Business, Business/careers, Equality

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be real: You can’t do everything yourself. Delegating to others helps you manage your workload and helps your colleagues who take on the tasks, decisions, and responsibilities to learn and grow. That doesn’t mean it’s always easy to do though. A leadership coach shares practices that will ensure the work gets done and will leave you and the person you delegated to feeling good about the experience.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com-womenatwork.
0:25.5	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.0	I'm Amy Gallo.
0:36.2	To learn how to delegate in a way that delivers the results you were hoping for,
0:40.4	we're bringing in a rocket scientist.
0:43.2	No, not because delegating effectively is rocket science.
0:47.1	Even Jasmine LaFloor, an aerospace engineer at Raytheon Technologies,
0:51.8	finds assigning colleagues tasks to be tricky.
0:55.5	So tricky that she doesn't always ask for the help she needs,
0:59.0	in both her day job and in running a nonprofit that teaches girls about engineering and business.
1:05.3	But now she's ready to confront the difficult and awkward parts
1:09.2	in order to delegate more and better.
1:12.4	I think delegation will definitely help me be more prepared,
1:16.8	and be able to focus on the things that I invest at
1:20.1	and can have more deep work on.
1:22.9	These are the sorts of outcomes that make entrusting others with work worth doing.
1:28.0	For anyone, you and me included.
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