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DELEGATION checklist assessment

This checklist is designed to help you assess how well you delegate. Think about the last time you delegated a task. Read each question and select "yes" or "no".

Thinking about the last time you delegated a task, did you:

Yes

No

Plan your delegation?

Delegate according to the person's ability and skill level?

Clarify what was required, by when and why?

Make it clear when you delegated what the person was responsible for and what they were not responsible for?

Explain what the results should look like?

Make it clear to others what had been delegated and the authority the person had?

Delegate responsibility but no accountability?

Allow discretion on time and method?

Agree to progress checks, if any?

Check progress at agreed-upon intervals?

Provide support if required?

Give feedback, both motivational and developmental?

Use delegation as a development tool as well as a way of achieving the task?

 

Reproduced by permission from HRD Press, Inc., Compendium of Questionnaires and Inventories, Volume 2, Cook, Sarah.

 
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