TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ROLES or positions often pass through a stage when you are doing some of your old work and some of the new work. Because the activities and responsibilities are so different, this near doubling of the workload is particularly recognizable for those transitioning from an individual contributor role to a manager role.Therefore, discussions on time and workload management are often one of the first topics in my transition coaching experience. Learning to delegate is often an outcome. Delegation is more than simply telling or asking someone to do something you would normally do. If that was all, then we really wouldn't struggle with delegation. Let’s take a look at several aspects of what underlies the difficulty of delegation.
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