Delegate IgnitePart of the Management Ignition suite
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Intelligent delegation

Delegate better. Every time.

Outline the task and the person being delegated to. Delegate Ignite then assesses their skill and confidence levels, recommends the perfect delegation approach, and writes the briefing note and the coaching notes for you.

Built on a ten-level delegation framework Three free uses, no card Ready in under two minutes

Talk or type. Describe the task the way it's in your head, out loud or on the keyboard, half-formed and messy. The tool does the tidying. That is what the sharpening check is for.

You are doing too much. Some of the work on your desk could be done by someone on your team, and you know it. You hold on because briefing someone properly feels slower than just getting on with it.

It isn't slower, not over a year. Every task you take back because you could do it faster is a task someone else never learned to do. Delegation done badly trains people to be less capable than they are. Delegate Ignite gives you the level of freedom that fits this task and this person, and the words for the conversation, so handing work across is quick enough that you actually do it.

30minutes to brief one delegation properly

Managers hold on to work because handing it over takes time.

A delegation done well takes about half an hour: the level of freedom, the success criteria, the resources, the review cadence, the briefing note. So most managers skip it and do the task themselves, which is how they end up the bottleneck.

Delegate Ignite does that half hour in a couple of minutes, and the brief comes out clearer than the rushed version. Across a team of eight, every quarter, that is most of a working day handed back.

Run across the whole suite, on a team of eight, the saving comes to two and a half to three working days a quarter. Tested in a workshop with 27 managers from 11 businesses across the UK, Europe and the US.

How it works

One real delegation, start to finish.

Here is every step, on a task a manager actually needs to hand over. Nothing staged.

The task Jim hands Sarah Chen a strategy review with a major client, ACME Plc. She's capable and ready to grow, but this is bigger than anything she's led before.
1
Describe the task

Tell it what you're handing over, and to whom.

You type or speak the task in your own words. What it is, what success looks like, the deadline, how complex it is and how much rides on it. Jim marks the ACME review as complex and high importance, because it is.

You cannot hold somebody accountable for a conversation you never had.
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The Delegate Ignite form: manager and delegatee names, task title and description for the ACME strategy review, the required outcome, deadline of 1st September 2026, and task profile set to Complex and High importance
Type it or speak it. Complexity and importance, set by you.
2
The sharpening check

It tells you when the task isn't clear enough yet.

Before it generates anything, Delegate Ignite reads the task and asks whether it's specific enough to hand over. A vague brief produces a vague delegation, so it stops you there.

It names what's missing: which stakeholders, which obstacles, what success looks like. Then it offers a tighter version. You take it, edit it, or keep your own wording. The tool earns its place before it writes a word.

A task handed over without clarity is a task that comes back to you.
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An amber panel headed Your goal needs sharpening, explaining the task description lacks specificity on stakeholders, challenges, resources and success criteria, with a suggested rewrite and buttons to use it or keep the original
Names the fault. Offers a fix. Leaves the choice to you.
3
Profile the person

Assess skill and confidence levels, and get the delegation style that fits.

Place the person on two parameters: how skilled they are at this kind of work, and how confident they feel about it. Sarah is capable but cautious on work this size, so both sit in the middle. There's a place to add why you chose her, the one detail the tool can't know.

With Sarah's profile completed, and the importance and complexity of the task gauged, the app chooses a meeting and support cadence for you to follow. Just the right frequency. In Sarah's case it's every two or three days at the start, because you feel she needs that level of support until her confidence grows.

Skill without confidence is a car with the handbrake on. Your job is to read which one you're dealing with.
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The profile screen: skill and confidence both set to Medium for Sarah Chen, a 'why this person' note, and a green cadence card recommending a check-in every two to three days framed as active coaching
Skill, confidence, and the check-in rhythm that matches.
4
The recommendation

It picks the level of freedom, and explains the conversation.

From ten calibrated levels of delegation, the tool recommends the one that fits. For Sarah it lands on Level 4: she tells Jim the situation and what help she needs, then they decide together. The right amount of freedom for a capable person on a task this size, with guardrails to support her.

Then it produces two things at once, clearly labelled. Coaching notes marked for the manager only, and a briefing note marked to share with the delegatee. One generation, both halves of the conversation.

Effective delegation is about choosing exactly the right blend of challenge and support for the person being delegated to. Too much challenge without enough support and they can feel overwhelmed. Too much support and not enough challenge and they can feel patronised.
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The generated output: a cadence card, then 'Advice for the delegator, manager only' with the Level 4 recommendation and nine steps, then the start of a briefing note marked 'share with delegatee'
Level 4, with notes for you and a note to share.
What you get

Two documents, one for your eyes only and one to share.

Delegate Ignite, like every tool in the suite, produces two editable and shareable outputs. Coaching notes to support you, marked 'manager only'. And a briefing note you can use for the 1-1 conversation with Sarah, marked 'to share'.

Manager only, private

Coaching notes

The level, the reasoning, the nine steps. Never shared.

Level 4: tell me what help you need, then we decide.

The right amount of freedom for Sarah on a task this size, with guardrails to support her. She owns the thinking; you stay close enough to catch a problem early.

Check in every two to three days. Keep it a coaching conversation, so it builds her confidence as the work goes on.

Straight to the move. The reasoning stays under the bonnet.

The briefing note

Written to the team member. Ready to talk through.

The task

Lead the ACME strategy review on 1st September. Get the COO and CSO to shape the agenda, and hear what they want from the next three years before we make our case.

It's a step up, so we'll work it together. You tell me what help you need, we decide the calls together, and you can reach me between check-ins.

I've thought about this carefully. You're the right person for it. Come with your questions. That's what the first meeting is for.

The output uses what you typed.

It picks the level, you don't guess

Ten calibrated levels, from full instruction to handing over a whole area. The tool reads the task stakes and the person's skill and confidence, and names the one that fits. Too much freedom sets someone up to fail. Too little trains a capable person to be helpless.

It sounds like a person

No "exciting opportunity", no rallying cry. The briefing states the task, says what success looks like, and offers real support. Your team member can read it without rolling their eyes.

30%
of managers delegate well

And of those, only a third are rated effective by the people they manage. The gap is rarely about willingness. It's about having the words ready before the conversation. Source: LeadershipIQ.

Hand over your next task with it.

Pick one thing on your desk that someone on your team could do. Run it through once. See the difference between dumping a task and delegating one.

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