Managing People Tip 5

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 Who to delegate a task to
 
 Find out about yourself
 
 The Management Potato
 
 Encouraging ideas
 
 Filtering
 
 Something for your office wall
 
 The unbroken chain
 
 Are you a successful manager?
 
 Monkey rules
 
 What are managers really for?
 
 Person in hole 
 
 Getting your hands dirty
 
 Weekly meeting
 
 Some awkward questions
 
 The three Value Disciplines
 
 Captain of the ship

Filtering.

Many people filter incoming work as follows:

1. Can I do it myself?
If too busy or the job is too unpleasant:

2. Can I delegate it?
If not (nobody available, all too busy etc)

3. maybe I can bin it

This doesn't sound too bad, but is actually all the wrong way around.

Try this:

1. Can I bin it?
If not then it's important, so...

2. Can I delegate it to someone?
If not then it really does have to be me who does it (and you can't tell me that there are many jobs in this category, or if there are then you need help!)

3. Oh alright then I'll do it myself.

What do you think? Better?

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