Delegating Effectively: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things Done

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Empowering is allowing a person to have substantial responsibility and discretion for meaningful and important tasks, providing the information and resources needed to make and implement decisions, and trusting the person to solve problems and make decisions without getting prior approval. An important aspect of empowering is delegation, which involves assigning new projects and responsibilities to individuals or a team and providing the authority, resources, direction, and support needed to achieve the expected results.

Employees are likely to have more commitment to implementing a decision when they feel they have ownership of the ...