Five Rules of Delegation to Ensure No One Has Power
This message goes out to insecure managers. It’s for those who fear someone working for you might take your job, that someone might be successful, more successful than you are.
If you follow these five rules of delegation, you can ensure they’ll never have any power.
- Change your team’s priorities on a regular basis. Make each day a moving target. As soon as they start to look good at one thing, place your focus on a different aspect of the job.
- Don’t allow them time to develop a realistic work schedule. Ask for a schedule before they have enough information to make one. Then hold them to the dates they planned on it.
- Develop a budget, but don’t show it to them. They have to ask permission for every paperclip they need to use.
- Focus heavily on quality standard that schedule and budget will not allow the team to produce.
- Hold team members responsible for the work of others over whom they have no control.
This will for sure keep your team “on their toes” and so busy trying to make something happen, they won’t have a chance to look at or look good enough to threaten your job.
On the other hand, you will have threatend it yourself. Bad leadership is it’s own reward.
Liz Strauss