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Preparing to Delegate

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perience, has offered to lead the effort. It seems like

a perfect opportunity. But before assigning it to her,

you carefully evaluate what’s involved and identify ex-

actly what skills the project demands. Through this

process, you realize that the project requires deeper

skills than Shauna has at this point, although they

are skills she has explicitly told you she wants to de-

velop. So instead of delegating the entire project to

her, you establish a project team with a more senior

lead than Shauna and try to match her skills with spe-

cifi c project tasks that support the larger project. Her

work on those tasks will then inform future assign-

ments and help you identify training opportunities

for her.

When you have a number ...