The last thing you should allow your subordinates to do is to delegate their problems to you. If you do, they will be in your office every 15 minutes saying, “I can’t figure out how to do this. Can you do this for me?”
Do you make your subordinate’s action points as your action points?
Ineffective managers make their subordinates’ problems their problems. Such managers eventually realize that they are being overloaded while their subordinates fail to develop themselves.
Helping subordinates is a part of any manager’s job
An effective manager redirects the subordinates to appropriate resources in order to help them to solve their own problems.
Now examine your behavior. Do you delegate upward, transferring your problems onto your boss’s back?
