Every manager or team leader has tremendous quantity of tasks to accomplish by himself/herself and also a big quantity of tasks that he/she needs to delegate to team members and control the process of their accomplishment. It is important to remember that the process of delegating tasks to other persons is also a task and it must be accomplished effectively. Here are several tips that can help you in effective delegation:

• Make sure that the person you choose is capable to do the task successfully. As if he/she is not, you just set this person to fail.
• Describe your requirements to the task accomplishment to the person to which you delegate it, including the way of its accomplishment, deadline and final result which you expect.
• Describe the task importance and the possible difficulties that employee may face during the process of task accomplishment.
• Support your employees. Provide them with necessary resources for task accomplishment. It can be money, training, advice, etc. Determine which of the resources is required and give them to your employees.
• Make sure that the employee accepted the assignment. Confirm your expectations and your employee's understanding of the commitment of task completion.

Using these tips, you will learn how to delegate tasks to the employees effectively.

However, you need a tool where you can keep all the tasks and that can help you to ease the process of delegation and save your time. Such tool is VIP Team To Do List. It allows creating a task list, setting priorities, setting deadlines, adding notes to your tasks and setting reminder, so you won't forget about the task you need to delegate. If you need to delegate a task to the definite person, you can simply do it via e-mail in VIP Team To Do List and save your time.

As you can see, by using VIP Team To Do List you will easily delegate the tasks and free up your time. All you need to do is to try!

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