Thanks to Peter Sinclair, from Outasight Enterprises, for his summary of an article on delegation by Bob Gass, ‘Getting things done!’ http://www.motivationalmemo.com ’Here’s a clue as to whether or not you’ll get the results you’re hoping for. If the person you’re instructing doesn’t carry a pen and paper and make notes – look out! [...]
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Would a time management specialist encourage you to procrastinate? You bet! There’s a time and a place for everything. I’d just returned to my office after having been on the road in two countries for five weeks. You can imagine the pile of paper ready to grab me by the throat! Everything screamed ‘Do me [...]
Do you remember your mother saying, ‘Pick up your clothes (or books, or toys)?’ A modified version of the same philosophy – ‘Put it away as you go’ – applies at the highest level of business. Perhaps it’s because our mothers told us to do it that so many seemingly well-organised, highly paid and otherwise neatly [...]
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Continuing on my journey along the quiet, early morning Sydney streets with Chris the Taxi Driver I asked, ‘Chris, how did you avoid micro-managing? It’s a common problem I see in many companies. The managers who do it usually have the best of intentions but somehow don’t know how to let go.’ ‘I asked lots [...]
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‘So what do you do?’ enquired my taxi driver this morning, as he drove me through the quiet Sydney streets. My usual answer ‘time management specialist’ produced one of the most informative taxi rides I’ve ever had. Chris used to be the Chief Engineer for a very large provincial County Council in the South West [...]
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Not sure what you can delegate? Don’t know if you can afford it? Try writing down a list of all the regular tasks you do in a week, and estimate the amount of time spent on each activity. Now, pretend you’re paying someone a wage relative to each task, and put a dollar value beside [...]