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Delegation

Understand the meaning of and how to use delegation to increase efficiency.

Knowledge Node Summary

Trusting in others allows delegation with confidence. If people and organisations can be trusted to deliver the task allocated to them in good time and to a high standard then tasks can be completed in less elapsed time and tasks can also benefit from the input of specialised domain experts. Delegation is a way of allocating appropriate tasks to individuals or organisations who might specialise in those tasks. Trust is the way that delegation can be carried out with confidence.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Delegation' is considered to be quite important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be rather complex and difficult to learn, it is generally learned from experience, and is fairly justifiable knowledge.
The learn time for this node given an understanding of the prerequisites, is about 1 week. The estimated learn time for the entire knowledge structure of this node is about 1 year.

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