Good management is a situational art. It seems
complicated because so many answers are in those couplets of, “if this
(fill in the blank), then this (a personalized answer.)”
I’m not going to suggest something different; great managers largely
meet their calling one person at a time, and I believe that is how it
should be.
- They discover what strengths each of their people possess,
- They place their people where they are called on to employ those strengths and capitalize on them, and
- They give their people the support they need to completely own their responsibilities and perform brilliantly.
That also means they delegate well. They consider
delegation to be a gift: It is the opportunity to perform something new
or different, to learn additional skills, to gain freshly current
knowledge, and to stretch hidden talents into newly activated strengths.
The picture isn’t always that rosy though, is it… continued at The Honolulu Advertiser on Say “Alaka‘i” ~ Good Delegation Can Happen in Every Conversation
