Delegating Work ─ Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges

The Pocket Mentor Series offers immediate solutions to common challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

Is your in-box always full? Are you constantly working overtime on tasks that "only you" can do? If so, you could benefit from delegating some of your workload. This volume shows you how to: identify which tasks to delegate; decide whether to delegate based on employee, task, project, or function; identify the skills required for each delegated assignment; make an assignment and monitor the work; and address problems with delegated assignments.