Managing All-in-One For Dummies

Book III

Mastering Key Management Duties

Five Key Reasons to Delegate

• Your success as a manager depends on delegating. Managers who can successfully manage team members — each of whom has specific responsibilities for a different aspect of the team's performance — prove that they're ready for bigger and better challenges.
• You can't do it all. No matter how great a manager you are, shouldering the entire burden of achieving your organization's goals isn't in your best interest.
• You have to concentrate on the jobs that you can do and your staff can't. They pay you the big bucks to be a manager — not a software programmer, truck driver, accounting clerk, or customer service representative. Do your job, and let your employees do theirs.
• Delegation gets workers in the organization more involved. When you give employees the responsibility and authority to carry out tasks — whether individually or in teams — they respond by becoming more involved in the day-to-day operations of the organization.
• Delegation gives you the chance to develop your employees. If you make all the decisions and come up with all the ideas, your employees never learn how to take initiative and see tasks through to successful completion. And if they don't learn, guess who's going to get stuck doing everything forever?

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