Delegate

=DELEGATE =

We DELEGATE  responsibility to staff so that they can do their job. This means: avoiding a top-down approach involving staff in every aspect of the institution's work allowing staff to take responsibility for the areas they are interested in

We all use many excuses for not delegating. Most of these excuses are usually unfounded. We can get far more done through delegation if we assume that most people want added responsibilities, as we ourselves do. We assume our staff are keen to learn and recognize that any short term training investment always pays off in the long term. In our experience, staff are always ready to help you if you approach them in the right way. The most effective way to delegate is to plan the delegation using your staff goals and development plans to inform your decisions. It is also essential that you remain responsible for the completion of the tasks which you have delegated and that you use the personal and professional development plans to manage the process with clearly stated outcomes and performance indicators. In this way, we can use delegation to generate trust, respect and an ethos of combined responsibility among everyone in the department and institution.

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