Coaching practices for My Boss Gave My Project to the New Employee What Do I Do Now

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• Someone hits a snag, brings it to me, I say "leave it with me," and somehow the task I delegated is back on my desk
• I hand work off and somehow it keeps boomeranging back onto my plate
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work

Practices that may help

1. Resist upward (reverse) delegation
   Don’t let the task you delegated jump back onto your desk the first time it gets hard.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
2. Resist reverse delegation (the "monkey back" problem)
   When a report brings you their monkey, don’t take it — send it back with the next step owned.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
3. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
4. Send proactive, brief status updates
   Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
5. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
6. Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain
   I’s are one-way — they receive information; the cost of surprising them is always higher than the cost of telling them.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
7. Transfer authority with the responsibility
   Give people the decision rights and resources the task actually requires.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
8. Match the task to the person
   Delegate based on the fit between the task’s demands and the person’s skill, growth needs, and capacity.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
9. Structured delegation for Q3 tasks
   Hand off urgent-but-not-important tasks with a clear brief, defined success criteria, and a check-in cadence.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
10. Name the delegation level explicitly at the start of every task
    State clearly whether you want a recommendation, a decision with notification, or a decision without notification — before the work begins.
    Delegation Levels, Made Practical

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