Delegating is your ability to enable others to act on your behalf to get more done better than you could on your own.
Delegating is also one of these ten core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business.
Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character Building.
Delegation empowers followers to make decisions. It drives decision-making authority down to the lowest possible level.
However, if done right, the delegation isn't abdication because the delegator is still responsible and accountable for the outcome of the assignment.
The delegator can never assign or transfer their responsibility or accountability for their assignment.
In the business world, delegation grants or transfers authority from a delegator to a follower to accomplish an assignment.
However, the delegator is still responsible and accountable for the follower's acts or omissions in carrying out the purpose of the assignment.
Effective people also know that they can never consistently produce excellent results without developing, nurturing, and enabling team members to act on their behalf.
This empowers followers to act independently with proper resources to accomplish an assignment.
The delegator doesn't have to be a boss or someone with authority.
Delegators are often peers, friends, or even spouses and it saves money, and time, motivates team members, and creates more effective teams.
Delegating an assignment isn't abdication because the asker is still responsible and accountable for the end result.
5% of delegating is asking someone to perform a task by a certain time. The other 95% is about following up to ensure it gets done.