Marina melnik delegate it right

1. Delegate IT Right
Marina Melnik,
SkillsUp, Founder
Run IT, Co-founder
Luxoft, Program Manager

2. Some Stats
• 78% of all personnel in major corporations
believe that their “boss, manager, or superior,
with whom [they have] a reporting relationship”
“routinely does work that would be more
effectively done by someone at [my] level.”
https://www.manager-tools.com/

3. Some Stats
• 66% of managers say they would like to “increase
their use of delegation as a time management
and personnel development tool.”
https://www.manager-tools.com/

4. Some Stats
• Leaders with high Delegator talent generate
~33% greater revenue
https://www.gallup.com

5. Why Delegate?
• Be Agile
• Care about your time
• Get better result
• Assess potential to-be-promoted-employee
• Involve and motivate team members
• Develop employees competencies
• …

6. What to Delegate?
• Time consuming and/or routine tasks
• Interesting tasks
• High-competence tasks
• Tasks someone enjoys to do
• Tasks for growth
• Tasks that are out of your responsibility
• …

7. Whom to Delegate?
• Experts in a topic
• Experienced employees
• Employees with sufficient soft skills
• Candidates for promotion
• Employees who want to try (highly-motivated)
• Employees who need to improve their skills

8. When to Delegate?
• The delegate has time to implement the task
• You have clear vision about the task
• You have time/skills to delegate (SMART goals),
monitor, control and provide feedback

9. How to Delegate?
• SMART goal
• Instruct -> discuss and decide -> ask and approve -> trust
• Note the agreement
• Organize infrastructure
• Inform stakeholders
• Monitor & motivate
• Help, not do (no reverse delegation)
• Provide feedback

10. Analyze Risks
Have Plan B

12. Q&A
marina_melnick@ukr.net
https://www.facebook.com/marina.melnick