Pick the task. Choose the person. Write the brief. Agree the level of authority. Set the check-in. Review the result against the brief. Give the credit. Seven steps, and delegation succeeds or fails at two of them: the brief, and the review. Skip the brief and you do the task twice. Skip the review and you never delegate it again.
The seven steps
1. Pick the task. Something that would still be fine done at 70 percent of your standard. Not a crisis, not a hard conversation.
2. Choose the person. Skill and hours. Both.
3. Write the brief. Result, audience, must-haves, due date, done checks. Five lines. This is the step that gets skipped because it feels slow.
4. Agree the level. Do they decide and tell you, or recommend and you decide? Say it.
5. Set the check-in. One point, when the finished work is ready. Not a stream of questions.
6. Review the result. Compare the work with the brief. Say what matched and what did not. Within a day.
7. Give the credit. By name, where people can see it. This is what makes the person want the next task.
Why three and six matter most
Everything before the brief is choosing. Everything after the review is maintenance. The brief is where your standard gets transferred; the review is where it gets confirmed. Teams that do both find that delegation gets easier each round. Teams that skip them find that it never does.
Where M-Tracker fits
Steps three and six are what M-Tracker does for every task. The brief is written once and visible to both of you. When the person sends the work, M-Tracker compares it with the brief and writes a plain review they see first, so step six is half done before you open it. The record of briefs and reviews makes step seven easy: you can see exactly what to credit.
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Questions people ask
Can I skip step four for small tasks?
Say it anyway. It takes five seconds and prevents the most common argument.
What if the person fails step six badly?
Look at step three first. Most failed reviews trace back to a thin brief.
How many steps for a repeat task?
Two: hand it over, review it. The brief already exists.
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