THE POWER OF DELEGATION

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Today we look into DELEGATION. There maybe many meaning of delegation but in all its all about distribution of power to councils or co-worker. Or simply a saintly devolution of power.

We are going to discus this on two ways. One from the story we all know and lastly by giving more explanation and merits of doing so.

Here we go...

Then Moses said to his father-in-law, "The people come to me and ask me to ask for God's decision for their problem. If people have an argument, they come to me, and I decide which person is right. In this way I teach the people God's laws and teachings."But Moses's Father-in-law said to him, "This isn't the right way to do this. It is too much work for you to do alone. You cannot do this job by yourself. It wears you out. And it makes the people tired too. Now; listen to me. Let me give you some advice. And I pray God will be with you. You should continue listening to the problems of the people. And you should continue to speak to God about these things. You should explain God's laws and teachings to the people. Warn them not to break the laws. Tell them the right way to live and what they should do. But you should also choose some of the people to be judges and leaders. "Choose good men you can trust - men who respect God. Choose men who will not change their decisions for money. Make these men rulers over the people. There should be rulers over 1000 people, 100 people, 50 people, and even over ten people. Let these rulers judge the people. If there is a very important case, then they can come to you and let you decide what to do. But they can decide the other cases themselves. In this way these men will share your work with you, and it will be easier for you to lead the people. If You do this as God directs you, then you will be able to do your job without tiring yourself out. And the people can still have all their problems solved before they return home." So Moses did what Jethro told him. Moses chose good men from among the Israelites. He made them leaders over the people. There were rulers over 1000 people, 100 people, 50 people, and ten people. These rulers were judges for the people. The people could always bring their arguments to these rulers, and Moses had to decide only the most important cases.

Moses was everything and did everything. In our parlance, we would say that he was both Cook and Steward! He did not know the importance of delegating responsibility and was burdened by leadership. He would preside petty arguments between the people he led as matters over the whole population of God's people. When his father in-law saw what he was doing, he told him plainly "This isn't the right way to do this. It is too much work for you to do alone You cannot do this job by yourself. It wears you out And it makes the people tired too.... " Then, he gave him time-tested counsels on delegation. What Moses was doing is what most of ua are doing. We need time- tested counsels on delegating certain responsibilities to others and stop doing everything by ourselves.

In human resource management agree delegation is critical to both human success and happiness, yet, it is a seldom used skill.

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Delegation is subordinates to learn new skills and build confidence to realize their full potential. Delegation allows executives to focus on more important issues. We all know that delegation is important, but we are collectively terrible at it. We think we are so busy that we do not even have time to explain tasks and that we are the only ones who can do it right. This one is hard to admit- we worry that someone else might usurp our positions. Whatever are the reasons, we are endlessly adding to our own workloads. These lead to stress, exhaustion and ultimately, burnout

Dr. Sally Ann Law, a Psychologist, personal and executive coach observed: "If we do not learn to delegate, we get increasingly trapped."

We sometimes delude ourselves by thinking that nobody else knows how to do anything. For this reason, we propagate "learnt helplessness" while getting more trapped in an ever- increasing workload.

Listen: it is time to break those unhealthy habits and start divvying up some of your to-do- lists by delegating.

The following principles will help you to maximize the benefits of delegation at home and at work.

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Reframe Your Thinking. The assumption that it is a waste of time to explain a task when you could just get on with it yourself and obviously do it much better is fundamentally flawed.

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Dr. Sally Ann Law says: "It does take time to help someone learn a new skill, but in the long run you will save a lot more time.

It is the only way to invest time in teaching colleagues or family members something that up till now you were the only one who is able to do."Change your attitude. When you do this, you will see delegation as an investment of time, not a waste of time.

Fine-Tune Your Coaching Skills

If your stumbling block is worrying over the fact that applying principles of delegation will backfire, especially if you have had an ugly experience in the past, stop to think:

"If you were dissatisfied with the result last time you delegated, two things could have gone wrong: you might have picked the wrong person, or you may not have delegated very well," says Dr. Ann Law.

You have to take time to set some people up for success. Explain the task, make yourself available when they need help, Ideal and inspire confidence in them. Have a realistic and clear deadline; ask them how they feel about doing it. If they are confident, trust them. If They need guidelines, suggest how you would approach it. Do not micro- manage people. Learn to make mistakes and figure out how to correct those mistakes.

Be Open to Change

One of the worst sicknesses of all time is Lock-in-thinking, Sometimes it takes seeing someone doing something differently to make us realize that their approach to a given task is better than what we are already used to.

Resist the temptation to woop in and take over, because you will destroy the confidence that person was beginning to gain, and with it, any interest in helping you again. If you want unique results, you would need to be careful of the person you delegate to execute a given task, It can be tempting to delegate a person with the highest workload or the person you relate well with. Certainly to delegate effectively, you need to "skill match." If the person you want to delegate a
given task to is completely overloaded, you need to handle that situation first before enlisting his/her help.

Review If They Ball It Up.

If someone does a "bad job," do not just huff, puff and decide you were right all along. If you
set up right, gave crystal-clear instructions, yet, your delegate still did a bad job, you need to discuss it. Ask him/her how he/she felt. Let your delegate
know that it did not go as well as you had hoped, and that you would like to work it out. If someone gives you something incomplete, do not wait: finish it
yourself and give him/her feedback. Clarify issues and ensure that you provide appropriate guidance to ensure what the same error is not repeated in the future.

How can you avoid saying, "l asked you to do one thing...." It should be a dialogue. You need to say: "You agreed to do this, so what happened?" Maybe he forgot, or he could not be
bothered; they did something else.

Delegation is an important tool for success, love, peace, progress and a happy world at large. Learn to delegate.

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