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Delegating the right tasks to the right people

How to make delegation work for everyone
November 04, 2021

When you assign the right tasks to the right people, you can make delegation work for everyone.

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the LeadDev StaffPlus Live conference about the right and wrong ways to delegate to teammates as a senior individual contributor (you can check out the talk here). In that session, I discussed the right times to delegate and the pitfalls of not delegating properly. In this article – which is part two of the conversation – I’m going to cover how to determine who should get which tasks, and how to support those folks to make delegation a positive experience for everyone.

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