How to Track Your Delegated Tasks

Kelly Forrister: Tracking Delegation

Management includes the day to day assignment of tasks, creations of procedures, employee follow-up, and the tracking of various aspects of projects.  Kelly Forrister, a trainer with the David Allen Company, offers a simple, yet effective way to track delegated tasks using GTD’s “Waiting For” list.

I find that consistency helps me be more effective because it eliminates excessive thought time during the course of the day when I’m fighting many battles.  Kelly has helped me be more consistent in the way that I enter my “Waiting For” tasks into my context lists by standardizing the notation into person, what she’s waiting for, and the date she began waiting.

Simple?  Yes, but at Olympic levels, athletes say that anything that gives them an advantage that yields a benefit measured in only 1000ths of a second is worthwhile.  The same applies here.  The time savings add up to provide a real benefit.