I became an E-Commerce supervisor at an internet company and I was given my first project. My team consisted of 3 colleagues who were experts in different areas of website development. I had knowledge of all these elements that make up a good e-commerce site but I was not skilled at any. Nevertheless, I was given the task to lead this team because of my prior experience in project management.
My team and I had our first meeting and an outline of the initial tasks was discussed. I began to delegate some of these tasks to the person who I thought would be able to do the job the best. Although there were some opinions and suggestions of who should do some tasks, I had already made up my mind about the work delegation. There were some complicated tasks that I left out in the delegation because I was thinking that I should be doing them.…
