# Delegation

Skill · Soft Skills and Communication

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/delegation

Delegation is the management practice of assigning tasks, authority, and responsibility to other people, typically subordinates, so a manager can focus on higher-priority work. Effective delegation requires clear communication of expectations, appropriate matching of tasks to skills, and follow-up accountability. It is considered a core leadership competency for scaling a team's output beyond what one person can do alone.

Related skills: [Team Leadership](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/team-leadership), [People Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/people-management), [Coaching](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/coaching), [Leadership](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/leadership), [Accountability](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/accountability), [Supervision](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/supervision), [Time Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/time-management), [Team Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/team-management), [Leadership and Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/leadership-and-management), [Management Skills](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/management-skills), [Initiative and Leadership](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/initiative-and-leadership), [Empowerment](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/empowerment)

## Open roles requiring Delegation (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.