1. Your Name March 10, 2010 Effective Delegation

2. What is Delegation? Why Do it? The act of assigning work to other employees Only so many hours in the day Can accomplish bigger projects faster and better by delegating Reduces amount of stress on yourself Able to make better use of your time

3. Importance of Effective Delegation for Managers Increases efficiency by assigning tasks that match employees’ skillsets Makes employees feel like their skills are being properly used Keeps projects on budget and on schedule

4. Why Effective Delegation is Effective for the Company Minimizes wasteful spending and allocation of resources Improves retaining rate of good employees Increases profit margins

5. What to Delegate? Work that you can easily train an employee to do Administrative duties (ie organizing business receipts, catering for meetings) Tasks that will be repeated again in the future Work that will improve an employee’s skills

6. What not to Delegate Delegation process Hiring new staff Mission critical tasks for the success of the company and can be handled by you

7. Delegation Process: Planning Determine skillsets of employees Define what tasks are to be delegated Assign tasks according to employees’ skillsets Determine what resources and funding will be needed

8. Delegation Process: Organizing Personally tell employees what tasks they will be delegated Ensure that delegated employees desire the same outcome as you do Provide upfront deadline information so employee schedules can be reviewed as necessary

9. Delegation Process: Leading Have employees regularly check in with project status reports Remind them of deadlines as they get closer Encourage employees by reminding them how much you appreciate their contributions

10. Delegation Process: Controlling Reprimand employees not making project deadlines Adapt project plans and deadlines as necessary If project deadlines aren’t being made in time, do it yourself or delegate someone else to

11. Works Cited Mind Tools Ltd. (2010). Successful Delegation. Retrieved March 6, 2010 from http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_98.ht m Poskey, M. (2010) Seven Steps to Increase Employee Retention. Retrieved March 6, 2010, fromhttp://www.zeroriskhr.com/articles/sevensteps.aspx