Delegation

An example of when I used delegation is when I was working for the Harness Horse Youth Foundation. My job description stated that I was an instructor and care taker for the children and the horses. One of my duties was to take the children in the morning down to the stables and delegate the task that they would need to do to care for the stables and the horses. I delegated by specifically telling the student what the task was that they were expected to perform and them told them which area they were to do it in. This system worked extremely well because then each person knew exactly what was expected of them.

An example of when I used delegation that did not work as well as I hoped was when I was in high school and I was working for Cold Stone Creamery. I was in charge of managing over the other employees and deciding what their jobs were. I tried giving the employees specific job tasks and then just expected them to do the jobs, but the mistake that I made was actually expecting teenagers to do what they were told. The only way to get them to work was to consistently be supervising them to make sure that they stayed on task.