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Balance your responsibilities

Balance your responsibilities

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Balance your responsibilities

- I had a client I was working with recently, she was in HR and was leading the new managers at her company, putting them through training to help increase their people skills. She said, one of the biggest complaints was that new managers would delegate all their work to everyone on their team and resentment would build. On the other hand, I've worked with managers who do the opposite and never delegate any work. When people take on a new management role it's easy to fall into the trap of trying to do everything. Maybe you know the individuals on your team and you know who you can rely on to help you complete work. But if you're new to the role, and working with people on your team there's a tendency to try and do all the work yourself. I want to share with you the importance of managing your work and how to do just that through delegation. Whether you take on all the work, or you ask one or two people to help you there's no I in team, embrace your whole team for maximum output. The…

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