Delegation - Tips #1

Welcome to this episode of Your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education. AWB Education is your partner in school leadership and is here to help you with your educational programming needs. You can find more episodes like this one, along with our offerings of support and consultation, at AWB education dot org. Hello, welcome back to Your Morning Boost. I'm your host Adam Bush, and we are going to take the next few episodes to take a look at the concept of delegation. Now, we are going to review an article that Lauren Landry put in the Harvard Business Review in January of twenty twenty that named nine delegation tips for managers. But we're going to look at this from a school leader's standpoint. Now. Lauren's first tip in there is to know what to delegate and do think about this. This just means that we need to have an understanding of what we should delegate and really what we shouldn't. Some things are easy. We know that we can't delegate anything that's included in a personnel file of course, or any of that, you know, information that somebody cannot have. But we can certainly think of maybe mundane details or day to day items or things that take a lot of your time but don't necessarily take your decision making ability. Is there information or is there something during your task that is vital for you to have. If not, this may be a task that somebody else can do. Is it something that maybe somebody can do but at the very end and you need to check on it before it is submitted. Or if you're not the one that needs to actually put the things together, then somebody else maybe can do that grunt work and let you finish up the task at the very end. Either way, this still frees you up to do something else. Now that takes us to our second tip. Lauren's next step is to play to your employees' strengths and goals. This is a big part of the reason why you should never delegate performance reviews, of course, or really anything that you know in that personnel file to somebody else, because not only from a confidentiality side, but you really need to know your employees if you're going to be successful delegating the right tasks to the right people. Do you know what your employee's goals are? Do you have somebody within your organization that is looking to move up, or maybe they're an aspiring administrator, or maybe they just really really want to have a strong voice in what is going on at your school. These are the best people to give some ownership tasks too. Not only does it add people to a task that might be highly motivated, it also helps them build their skills for future impact on work at the school. It could also be based on a specific skill set. Maybe you have somebody that is really good at technology. We'll let them do the technology pieces. Maybe there's somebody on your team that's really really good at crunching numbers, or they're like me, they love spreadsheets. Those are the type of tasks that those people like to do. Anyway, let us do it. So then Lauren goes on to her third tip, which is to define the desired outcome. Now, this includes a handful of things. It should be what the final results should look like, what you're hoping for, things like that. But it also should include the timeline. This is this format is that a presentation, is a paper, whatever it may be. All of those details that somebody would need to be able to complete the project is supervital. The last thing you want to do is have somebody spend time and some effort on creating something that either you don't use it because it wasn't in the mode or method in which you thought would equal completion, or it just isn't the type of thing that actually is going to drive the company forward. Either way, details are important and being clear with those expectations are just as important for adults as they are for our students. The last thing we want to do is waste people's time because we were just not all on the same page. That would just make the future delegating tasks that much more difficult. This has been your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education. Find us at AWB education dot org to find out how we can help you with your educational programming needs. If you enjoy this episode, please take a quick minute to leave a rating and review to help us reach even more people. Otherwise, enjoy the workday, lead with your heart and we will see you next time.