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Identify Task Create
Summarizing
Delegation Document
Chart Chart Flow
Not in place
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Find the Right Conduct Status
Checks
Person

Explain In place
Assignment
Deadline
Report
Explain Benefits
Evaluate
Specify Results
Standards
Praise/Suggest
Improvements
Establish
Reporting
Method End

Figure 6-2. Delegation flowchart

sure to track your task assignments. Keep a record of the task
delegated and the date you made the assignment, as well as
dates for status review and task completion.
3. Find the right person. Once you’ve flowcharted the job, you
should be in a better position to assign it to the right person. Be
open-minded. Don’t be constrained by existing roles. For exam-
ple, the janitor might be just the right person to spearhead that
new safety committee.
It’s important to be aware of the unique talents and apti-
tudes of the people you work with and who work for you. Very
often, people are capable of performing tasks—and would enjoy
being asked to perform them—that no one has ever asked them
to do. Those things that you know particular employees do well

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