Iremia Advisory · Management Foundations · Class 2 of 4

Purpose

Class 1 defined the role. Now we move to the day-to-day work inside it. This class is about turning role clarity into actual delegated work that gets done. The skill is reaching a clear agreement with the employee on every meaningful task that passes between you. Without that skill, missed deadlines, half-done projects, and frustrated managers are inevitable.

By the end of the session, you will have a framework you can apply to every task you delegate, and you will have practiced it on a real example from your current to-do list.

Where This Fits

Class 1 defined the role. Class 2 is delegation that works. Class 3 is communication rituals. Class 4 is feedback. The order matters. You cannot delegate well if the role is not clear. You cannot give useful feedback if there was no clear agreement to begin with.

Pre-Class

The Manager's Guide for Class 2 (this document) is the only reading.

Bring written answers to these prompts:

1. Do you tend to under-delegate or over-delegate? Explain.
2. Pick a recent example of a one-off assignment where one of your direct reports did the task poorly. Describe the assignment.
3. What happened with it?
4. Looking at the Five Questions framework below, what was missing from the agreement on that assignment?
5. Time machine: if you had the conversation again, how would you have handled the agreement differently?
6. Make a list of five things on your current to-do list that fall into one of the three delegation categories below (repetitive, low-leverage, work you do not want to do).
7. Pick one of those tasks. Imagine which direct report you would delegate it to. Walk through the Five Questions for that task before class.

In Class: Build Clear Agreements