How to Delegate Effectively as a Manager

How to turn 1+1 into 3.

Dan Silvestre
7 min readDec 15, 2023

In this post, I’ll share my 3-part framework on how to delegate effectively as a manager.

One of the most difficult transitions for managers is to go from doing to leading. You might get away with doing everything yourself in the short term, but you’re heading for burnout.

Soon, you realize that you need to empower your team if you want to scale your impact.

Because here’s the truth:

Delegation is the closest to a superpower you can have as a manager. When you delegate effectively, you reduce your workload while elevating your impact tenfold.

But, delegating effectively is challenging, and few managers excel at it.

And that’s because most managers don’t know how to delegate effectively.

Great managers delegate better than average managers.

And they follow my 3-part framework to delegate effectively. They know what to do before delegation, during delegation, and after delegation.

Here’s what we will cover:

  • How to decide what to delegate and to whom
  • The right way to delegate tasks effectively
  • What to do after delegation so you ensure…

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Dan Silvestre

Performance coach helping leaders get the right things done with less effort than anything they've tried before. Join 20k+ readers: newsletter.dansilvestre.com