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Pick the task, choose the person, write the brief, agree the level, set the check-in, review the result, give the credit. Seven steps of delegation and the two where most of it fails.

Delegate results not steps, write a five-line brief, name the level of authority, delegate the whole piece, resist taking it back, and review then credit. Six strategies that make delegation last.

Keep feedback to your people, hiring and firing, direction, key client relationships, crises, anything confidential, and anything you were asked to do personally. Delegate nearly everything else.

Most managers delegate at level two or three: research and report back, or recommend and I decide. Why that keeps the manager in the loop on everything, and how to move most work to level four.

Proper delegation is a written brief, a named level of authority, no interference in the middle, and a review of the finished work against the brief. The method, with the brief template.

Prepare the brief, hand over with a named level of authority, support only when asked, review the result and give credit. The four stages of delegation and what goes wrong in each.