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00:00:00 --> 00:00:05 Welcome to Your Morning Boost, your daily leadership advice to help you lead your school community.
00:00:05 --> 00:00:09 Brought to you by AWB Education and sponsored by Grundmeyer Leader Services,
00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 where together we are transforming education, one leader at a time.
00:00:14 --> 00:00:18 Good morning, school leaders. Happy holidays. Welcome to Your Morning Boost.
00:00:18 --> 00:00:19 Thank you for joining me today.
00:00:20 --> 00:00:23 We're going to take a few days off this week and next week to celebrate the
00:00:23 --> 00:00:27 holidays, and I certainly hope that you are doing the same. You certainly need
00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 to be doing that as you have earned this time off from all your hard work in the year 2024.
00:00:33 --> 00:00:36 As we are wrapping up this season, we're going to revisit a topic from earlier
00:00:36 --> 00:00:39 in season one where we were talking about delegation.
00:00:39 --> 00:00:44 This is a great time for us to think about ways as we come back in the new year
00:00:44 --> 00:00:47 to be able to make our workplace a little bit more effective and make our work
00:00:47 --> 00:00:49 a little bit more efficient as well.
00:00:49 --> 00:00:53 When we return after the first, we're going to dive into season two where we've
00:00:53 --> 00:00:56 got some new features coming up that I'm really excited about.
00:00:56 --> 00:01:01 So keep an eye out for that and enjoy the rest of this calendar year and try
00:01:01 --> 00:01:04 to find some time for you and your loved ones to reconnect and recharge.
00:01:04 --> 00:01:09 Now, we are going to review an article that Lauren Landry put in the Harvard
00:01:09 --> 00:01:15 Business Review in January of 2020 that named nine delegation tips for managers.
00:01:15 --> 00:01:18 But we're going to look at this from a school leader's standpoint.
00:01:19 --> 00:01:22 Now, Lauren's first tip in there is to know what to delegate.
00:01:23 --> 00:01:27 And if you think about this, this just means that we need to have an understanding
00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 of what we should delegate and really what we shouldn't. Some things are easy.
00:01:30 --> 00:01:34 We know that we can't delegate anything that's included in a personnel file,
00:01:34 --> 00:01:38 of course, or any of that information that somebody cannot have,
00:01:38 --> 00:01:43 but we can certainly think of maybe mundane details or day-to-day items or things
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 that take a lot of your time but don't necessarily take your decision-making ability.
00:01:47 --> 00:01:52 Is there information or is there something during your task that is vital for you to have?
00:01:52 --> 00:01:57 If not, this may be a task that somebody else can do. Is it something that maybe
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 somebody can do, but at the very end you need to check on it before it is submitted?
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 Or if you're not the one that needs to actually put the things together,
00:02:04 --> 00:02:08 then somebody else maybe can do that grunt work and let you finish up the task at the very end.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:11 Either way, this still frees you up to do something else.
00:02:12 --> 00:02:16 Now, that takes us to our second tip. Lauren's next step is to play to your
00:02:16 --> 00:02:17 employees' strengths and goals.
00:02:17 --> 00:02:21 This is a big part of the reason why you should never delegate performance reviews,
00:02:21 --> 00:02:23 of course, or really anything that,
00:02:24 --> 00:02:28 you know, in that personnel file to somebody else, because not only from a confidentiality
00:02:28 --> 00:02:32 side, but you really need to know your employees if you're going to be successful
00:02:32 --> 00:02:35 at delegating the right tasks to the right people.
00:02:35 --> 00:02:39 Do you know what your employees' goals are? Do you have somebody within your
00:02:39 --> 00:02:43 organization that is looking to move up, or maybe they're an aspiring administrator,
00:02:43 --> 00:02:48 or maybe they just really, really want to have a strong voice in what is going on at your school.
00:02:48 --> 00:02:51 These are the best people to give some ownership tasks to.
00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 Not only does it add people to a task that might be highly motivated,
00:02:54 --> 00:02:58 it also helps them build their skills for future impact on work at the school.
00:02:59 --> 00:03:03 It could also be based on a specific skill set. Maybe you have somebody that
00:03:03 --> 00:03:06 is really good at technology. Well, let them do the technology pieces.
00:03:06 --> 00:03:09 Maybe there's somebody on your team that's really, really good at crunching
00:03:09 --> 00:03:12 numbers, or they They're like me. They love spreadsheets.
00:03:12 --> 00:03:16 Those are the type of tasks that those people like to do anyway. Let us do it.
00:03:17 --> 00:03:22 So then Lauren goes on to her third tip, which is to define the desired outcome.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:27 Now, this includes a handful of things. It should be what the final result should
00:03:27 --> 00:03:31 look like, what you're hoping for, things like that. But it also should include the timeline.
00:03:32 --> 00:03:35 Is this format? Is it a presentation? Is it a paper?
00:03:35 --> 00:03:38 Whatever it may be. All of those details that somebody
00:03:38 --> 00:03:41 would need to be able to complete the project is super vital
00:03:41 --> 00:03:44 The last thing you want to do is have somebody spend time and
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 some effort on creating something that either You don't use it
00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 because it wasn't in the mode or method in which you thought would equal completion
00:03:50 --> 00:03:54 Or it just isn't the type of thing that actually is going to drive the company
00:03:54 --> 00:03:58 forward Either way details are important and being clear with those expectations
00:03:58 --> 00:04:03 are just as important for adults As they are for our students The last thing
00:04:03 --> 00:04:06 we want to do is waste people's time because we were just not all on the same page.
00:04:07 --> 00:04:10 That would just make the future delegating tasks that much more difficult.
00:04:11 --> 00:04:15 You have been listening to your Morning Boost by AWB Education in partnership
00:04:15 --> 00:04:16 with Grundmeyer Leader Services.
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00:04:22 --> 00:04:26 Remember, you are doing this vital job that only a few can do.
00:04:27 --> 00:04:31 So until next time, thank you for your service to your community.