"Set and Forget" Leadership - How to Delegate so You Don't Get Burned

‘Set and forget’ leadership:  Hand off the task as fast as possible, move on to other things.  It’s what we tend to do when we’re in a hurry, but the biggest speed advantage this approach confers may be how quickly it can get us into trouble.  Here’s a way to think about how to delegate that task we’ve cooked up so that things function smoothly in the kitchen, and nobody gets burned.

Notes and Resources:

• Prefer to read?  Here’s the full post:  ‘Set and Forget’ Leadership: How to Delegate So You Won’t Get Burned
• Like so many of his books, Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw is both and entertaining and informative look into the quirks of being human.
• Check out Delegate or Die and how to delegate for a deeper dive behind the idea of why we need to delegate, even if we can do the task best.
• For a detailed look at how to conduct an after-action review, read The After Action Review:  A Leader’s Guide – it gives a blow-by-blow approach to what to do before, during, and after the big event so that each time you keep getting better.
   

Quotable: 

“If it happened in our kitchen, our fingers are scorched; we have to own it.”  - Ken Downer

“Micromanaging our teammates can erode trust and foster disengagement almost as fast as blame-shifting can.”  - Ken Downer

“’Set and forget’ is now way to run a kitchen, not if we want to avoid sullen chefs and dissatisfied diners.”  - Ken Downer

Related posts: 

Micromanagement: 7 Signs You’re a Micromanager and What to Do About It

Getting Down in the Trenches: Tips for Taking Over

Mind the Gap: 9 Ways to Close the Trust Gap on Your Team

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