PAPERmaking! g FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY ® Volume 9, Number 2, 2023
How do you delegate tasks successfully? As you might expect, there isn’t one straightforward answer to this question. Let’s assume a starting point - you’ve got a lot on your plate, and a willing team of people around you who are able to take on some of the work. How to decide which tasks to delegate (and which to keep) Some of the tasks on your list will be ones that you have sole responsibility for. Identify these and remove them from consideration. But what if that’s not as easy as it sounds? Don’t worry, there are tactics for that! Approach one: a quick-and-dirty matrix If you’ve read any books or listened to any podcasts about productivity recently, you’ll be familiar with the Eisenhower Matrix. It’s a super low -tech tool to help you rapidly decide what to do with each of the tasks on your list. Let’s take a look. First, you draw two bisecting lines and label them as shown (the y axis shows increasing urgency, and the x shows increasing importance).
Then, on your matri x, place an X for each task that’s currently on your to -do list. For example, drafting a welcome message to a new starter on your team could be urgent and important, while renaming the files on a shared drive to use the internal naming convention would be important (probably), but not urgent. Then you can quickly transfer the tasks into different piles as follows:
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