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Assurance strategies remove delegation 'traps'

High-performing teams thrive under leaders who "delegate deliberately", but success hinges on building trust and having an assurance strategy in place, a leadership specialist says.

Without an assurance strategy, leaders risk becoming a "control freak" and can fall into delegation traps, says Maree Burgess.

She says that while every leader's strategy is self-defined, it must outline what a leader needs to "hear and see to believe that this person can do the job".

"If the assurance strategy isn't in place, then you start looking over their shoulder, checking on what they are doing, contacting them daily, and so on. As a result, you turn into that control freak. And that's something you want to avoid," she says in her latest book, Level Up...

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