DELEGATION AND EDUCATION
Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash Some managers do not want to delegate their work. “My team members are inexperienced.” “I do it myself until I teach it.” “Only people at my level can do these things.” “No one else can do these things but for me.” “Team members don’t have the ability to make decisions as I do.” Management is the process of directing people and tasks rather than actually doing them. Besides that, as a project manager gives more responsibility to team members, their development is contributed. The expectation from a manager is not a simple function of assigning jobs and querying the status of those jobs. So, what kind of path should a manager follow so that the team members can manage themselves? I met a young manager at a firm that I consulted, who attaches great importance to this issue. He is a civil engineer. He had attended a course given by me to manage his projects more effectively. The training was mainly about learning a project management soft...