{"id":165,"date":"2007-09-24T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T07:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/24\/diversity-and-the-art-of-delegation\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T07:28:48","slug":"diversity-and-the-art-of-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2007\/09\/24\/diversity-and-the-art-of-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and the Art of Delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How do you get other people to do what needs to be done?<\/li>\n<li>How do you make time and space in your diary to do the things that only you can do?<\/li>\n<li>How do you manage to escape doing those aspects of the job that you don&#8217;t like or find hard?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delegation of course.<\/p>\n<p>But what if your team, the pool of people available to delegate to, is just like you?\u00a0 Similar personalities and temperaments.\u00a0 Similar preferences and skills.<\/p>\n<p>If you fall into this trap then those things that you want to delegate &#8211; they are likely to want to delegate too.\u00a0 The jobs that you hate &#8211; they will hate too.\u00a0 delegation becomes a difficult, risky and painful process.<\/p>\n<p>If on the other hand you have a diverse team with a wide variety of skills and preferences then it is likely that you will find someone to delegate to who will enjoy the new work.<\/p>\n<p>By recruiting a team with diverse skills and preferences you will make delegation much more straightforward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/inward-investment-a-dummies-guide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Why I am not Celebrating Job Creation by the Supermarkets\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/why-i-am-not-celebrating-job-creation-by-the-supermarkets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why I am not Celebrating Job Creation by the Supermarkets<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Paul Seabright on The Supply of Shirts\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/12\/paul-seabright-on-the-supply-of-shirts-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Paul Seabright on The Supply of Shirts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get other people to do what needs to be done? How do you make time and space in your diary to do the things that only you can do? How do you manage to escape doing those aspects of the job that you don&#8217;t like or find hard? Delegation of course. 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