Deepika is a software engineer by qualification and an enthusiastic professional by heart. She joins a company as a Sr. Software engineer. Just two months after her joining, she gets promoted to the project leader role. She is praised for her sincerity and leadership qualities, her seniors see her as ‘the person of successful delegation of work’ that made her eligible to get that promotion.
What makes an individual stand out from their colleagues?
Apart from the all basic requirements of technical skills, what makes a person stand out from others? That is – how successfully you can delegate your work so that it can be a help for others to contribute and perform their role efficiently. In every organisation, at each level, everyone is accountable and responsible to do their role-specific duties, everyone likes people in their team who help them to delegate their tasks timely and efficiently.
Delegation at different levels
Considering three levels of working – entry, middle, top. At each level ‘successful delegation of work based on the role’ makes a person get a promotion.
At the entry level, a person needs to be very clear about the core of the work and system nature. To gel with the organisation’s culture and do the systematic processing of modules considering all detailed analyses are the main objectives at this level.
At the middle level, a person needs a good understanding to get the work done efficiently by others. Understanding people’s strengths, inducing effective communication, intelligent assignment of work and enthralling the momentum of motivation are the main traits to efficiently manage work at this level.
At a high level, a person needs a deep understanding of problem-solving strategies to handle the unpredictable and decision-making strategies to handle the quickness and risk of decisions in inadequate data.
Responsibilities and work nature of all levels may be different but the motto is the same ‘successful delegation of work based on the role’. A delegation is successful when it is timely, helpful, qualitative and quantitative. Whatever level you hold, if you can exhibit yourself as a successful delegate through your work and communication, indeed it makes you the most eligible person to get that promotion among your competitors.
Now, how Emotional Intelligence can help you in the whole context? After reading till now you may more curious, and you may want to be more clear about yourself to be nearer to your promotion. If you find this interesting and important for you to know more about it then keep reading. Before telling about the connection between emotional intelligence and promotion, First, let me tell you about Emotional Intelligence. If you haven’t heard about this term before, never mind, it’s not too late, every time is a good time to know about something good.
Delegation and Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise, accept and understand our and others’ emotions and use this ability to manage our behaviour. We all are born with a certain level of this ability. The good news is that this ability is learnable to level up at any point in time life. Emotional intelligence skill is bundled with many tools and techniques, using which one can level up his/her emotional intelligence level. Training a mind to learn and apply this skill makes it happen in easy steps. As high the level of emotional intelligence as high the probability of being a successful delegate of your work as per your role. It makes you an efficient and successful role player eligible to level up for the next roles in the pipeline.
To be a successful delegate of your work what do you need? – resources and capability. That you already have. Of course, you match with all basic technical qualifications and experience to get the work done then what else is required – simple, A managed behaviour by meaning emotional state to empower self and others. That’s the main outcome of applying Emotional Intelligence skills. Emotional Intelligent behaviour is deeply based on understanding people’s feelings, thinking and communication. It makes your understanding an emotional intelligent understanding of self and the external world. As you get more understanding, you become more clear about yourself and others. That helps you to understand yourself, your work nature, other people’s behaviour and the external environment. This understanding develops leadership skills, communication skills, people skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills to result in a successful delegate of work. Then formal promotion just becomes the side product, you mainly find yourself living a successful life at your core values to experience the ultimate joy in your life.