Harvard Business School Online How to Delegate Effectively
Harvard Business School Online How to Delegate Effectively is an article on the HBS Online Business Insights blog by Lauren Landry. It explains why managers hold on to work, defines delegation as the transfer of responsibility for specific tasks from one person to another, reports a Gallup finding on chief executives who delegate well, and sets out nine practices for managers.
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How It Helps Your Business English
A management article on delegation in nine practices. It opens with the reasons managers avoid handing work over, then defines delegation and reports that chief executives who excel at it generate higher revenue. The nine practices cover what to delegate, playing to strengths, defining the outcome, resources and authority, a communication channel, allowing failure, patience, feedback and credit.
Read it as a model of how managers write about their own work, and keep the nine headings as a checklist before you hand a task over. The quotations from a Harvard Business School professor give you the phrasing for setting an objective and for agreeing how progress will be reported. For language practice, put each of the nine points into one sentence of your own.
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