At the moment I'm "between jobs" and I pretty much do the same as Lisa and keep it simple. However, your question raises some interesting thoughts about how MLO can be used.
I had a look at my last role and came up with an MLO template that might have been useful to handle communications at work (including delegation). It's based around an outline structure with folders for individuals. The benefit of using an outline instead of tags like contexts, flags, etc is that it's easier to review and easier to maintain a contact history by person. It's most appropriate for high volume communication with people you deal with regularly. It could be useful, for example, for 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, consolidated task phone calls/emails, departmental meetings etc. Your tasks are a contract with yourself but tasks given to and received from others are a contract with them which might need a more formal process i.e. proposal, acceptance, monitoring, completion. These should be mutually agreed/managed to avoid comments like "you never asked me to do that", "you asked me to do it but I told you I couldn't", "I'd forgotten I had to do that", "you may think it's finished, but I don't". This opens up the possibility of using the MLO template as a shared document/contract so that everyone's got the same idea of what has to be done and the status. I know there are a zillion collaborative webapps out there but the advantage of MLO lies in combining the outline (with sequences of tasks, dependencies, hierarchies etc) with a straight to do list. The webapps are just to do lists. I guess MLO is principally designed to manage your own tasks/goals but, for a lot of people, this is only part of the story. Your work life might also include managing the tasks/goals of others; your line reports, your boss, your colleagues. MLO could also be used to help others achieve and manage the tasks they give you and you give them. If you're interested, reply to me, and I will send you a link to the template which explains a bit more technical detail about how I would make it work for me. Any feedback would be welcome. On Nov 11, 10:47 pm, "Bill N." <[email protected]> wrote: > How do folks track tasks that have been delegated to someone else? > There is no "Delegated to..." or follow-up tracking. Anyone figured > out a clever way to handle this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
