I was facilitating a group for the second time this week and one of the participants mentioned how something I’d done in the first session on delegation had made a massive impact on their work and approach to managing their team.

It’s a simple framework to classify your workload and what needs to be delegated:

• It’s Mine, Don’t Touch
• It’s Mine, Do Some
• It’s Yours, Report Regularly
• It’s Yours, Report Exceptions
• It’s Yours, Report Completion

I looked back on my blog posts and found I’d written about it on my blog about 12 years ago. I remember the thinking around it had come from something I’d done some 20 years before that.

Good ideas have longevity; don’t necessarily rely on the new.