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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 --> 00:00:16 Now here's your host, Adam Bush.
00:00:18 --> 00:00:21 Good morning. Welcome back. Today is the last of this deep dive into delegation.
00:00:22 --> 00:00:26 We have been diving into Lauren Landry's 2020 Harvard Business School article
00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 of how to delegate effectively and taken a look at this from the lens of school
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31 leadership, and we are now on to tip eight.
00:00:32 --> 00:00:38 Her eighth tip is to deliver and ask for feedback, and this is where we truly work as a team.
00:00:38 --> 00:00:43 Once the task is completed or when you're at some designated points in the process,
00:00:43 --> 00:00:47 that need for feedback is a vital part of this process of delegation.
00:00:48 --> 00:00:52 Make sure your employee or employees get the feedback they need to understand
00:00:52 --> 00:00:57 how the task is going and areas you see as possible improvements in areas that
00:00:57 --> 00:00:58 have been great successes.
00:00:58 --> 00:01:04 But this is also a great time to seek feedback from them on how I have delegated the task.
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 Did they have what they needed to complete the task? Or were there some false
00:01:07 --> 00:01:10 starts due to something that I left out or something that was missing?
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 Did they feel that my instructions were clear?
00:01:13 --> 00:01:17 Did they feel like they had the autonomy and the space to complete the tasks?
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 Or was I too far into the weeds with them.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:25 All of this feedback, and in both directions, is just going to help for future delegation tasks.
00:01:25 --> 00:01:29 I remember someone saying to me that you shouldn't ask questions you don't want
00:01:29 --> 00:01:33 to hear the answer to, and although that is accurate in many areas,
00:01:33 --> 00:01:38 in this particular case, we should want to hear the answers to these questions.
00:01:38 --> 00:01:43 Those answers are that formative data that we can use to guide our next attempt at this process.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 Lastly, this brings us to Lauren's ninth tip, and maybe the most important,
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 which is to give credit where credit is due.
00:01:51 --> 00:01:54 I figured this out years ago, the meaning behind some advice that was shared
00:01:54 --> 00:01:59 to me by another football coach when I was just first starting out as my first year as a head coach.
00:01:59 --> 00:02:03 His advice was very simple. He said that when things are going well and the
00:02:03 --> 00:02:07 team is successful, I should make sure I give all of the credit to the players,
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 the coaches, and anyone else that's had a part of that team.
00:02:09 --> 00:02:11 And they are why everything is going well.
00:02:11 --> 00:02:16 But when you lose or things are not going well, that's when you stand out in
00:02:16 --> 00:02:17 front of that team and you take responsibility.
00:02:18 --> 00:02:21 You can shield them from having to take ownership, and in the end,
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 you're going to be responsible to correct what was going wrong anyway,
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26 so you might as well be that person out in front.
00:02:26 --> 00:02:29 Now, this is very true, especially in a lot of our work.
00:02:30 --> 00:02:33 The people closest to us know that they know when we did something well.
00:02:33 --> 00:02:35 We don't need to tell everybody.
00:02:35 --> 00:02:39 But feeling appreciated and getting recognition for a job well done helps to
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 bring out that effort again in a future task.
00:02:42 --> 00:02:46 Most of us don't go into this role of educational leadership because we want
00:02:46 --> 00:02:47 the praise that comes with it.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:51 I mean, let's be honest, the praise is far outweighed by the criticism.
00:02:52 --> 00:02:56 And it's easy to dwell in the land of negativity each day, and our teams can
00:02:56 --> 00:02:57 just get bogged down there.
00:02:57 --> 00:03:01 If we take the time to recognize good work, especially when it is a task that
00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 we've delegated to someone else, that's just going to make them own it.
00:03:04 --> 00:03:08 They will want to improve. They'll already start looking ahead to that next
00:03:08 --> 00:03:10 go-around where they can do this again.
00:03:11 --> 00:03:15 Pride is real, and we can help guide that pride in a positive direction,
00:03:15 --> 00:03:17 which is going to continue to lead our teams forward.
00:03:17 --> 00:03:22 You have been listening to Your Morning Boost by AWB Education in partnership
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00:03:29 --> 00:03:33 Remember, you are doing this vital job that only a few can do.
00:03:33 --> 00:03:37 So until next time, thank you for your service to your community.