Learn to Delegate; Like a Boss
Very good individual contributors get promoted to become leaders of the team. When they get promoted, they get more responsibilities, more balls to juggle, less time to make it all work. Becoming more efficient will not be enough. Highly effective leaders and managers learn to perform better by delegating work to other team members. In this talk you will understand why delegation is so important. You will learn tips for delegation and how to decide what to delegate. And you will walk away with a delegation script to help you make delegation a reality in your daily work.
When performant individual contributors get promoted, they are usually the best on the team at getting things done. They are the most knowledgable, or the most efficient, and they deliver regularly. When they get promoted, they get more responsibilities, more balls to juggle, and less time to make it all work. Suddenly, becoming more efficient is not enough. They cannot accomplish all the responsibilities of their current role as well as continuing to ship features. They need to shift their mindset. To make a switch from a mindset of a maker and a doer to a mindset of a leader, planner, and enabler. This switch means that they are no longer responsible for the work. Instead they are responsible for the people delivering the work. They need to enable others and continue moving work forward.
Highly effective leaders and managers learn to perform better by delegating work to other team members. Instead of micromanaging, they should learn to delegate. By delegating they carve time for themselves to reflect and consider the bigger picture.
In this talk, I will cover why micromanagement doesn't work and why delegation is so important. I will cover concepts of trust and control, enabling autonomy, and how delegation does not equal abdication. I will also discuss tips for delegation and how to decide what to delegate. Lastly, I will introduce a delegation script to help make delegation a reality.
