Delegation, Supervision, and Persuasion

Delegation, Supervision, and Persuasion

Learn about persuasive delegation, or the unique considerations arising when you delegate outside your team, and gain effective strategies to use when the person you’re delegating to doesn’t report to you—or is of equal seniority to you.

Transcript

Throughout this course, we’ve studied what it takes to delegate to and supervise people of lesser seniority than you. But you’ll often find yourself delegating to people whose seniority equals, or even exceeds, your own. You’ll do this for various reasons, for instance, because you need their specific expertise, or simply because no one else is available to do the work. But whenever you delegate to a peer or a superior, your approach must differ somewhat from when you delegate to a junior....