**As a leader, you need to know the capabilities of your employees. As mentioned previously in the episode I made about knowing your employees on a personal level, you must also know what each member of your team can and cannot handle. You don’t want to be that leader that tasks a tech wiz with fixing a malfunction on a transmission. The person can probably type hundreds of words per minute and write code all day long, but that’s not going to help him disassemble a transmission and work out the kinks. So, in this episode, I’m going to discuss ways to task your team accordingly.

Episode Outline:

1. Assessing your employees' skill levels**

2. In every company, there are training programs. These training programs are not only meant to improve/teach the desired set of skills to employees, but to also weed out the ones that can’t handle what needs to be done.

3. Not every person is built physically or mentally for every task. The training programs are meant to establish who can and cannot perform to the desired level.
   • This does not mean that a person who can’t perform well in one area won't perform top notch in another, you simply have to have a top notch training program so that each person on your team who is willing to put in the effort will be placed exactly where they will excel.
     • A person’s desires should play a part as well. If an employee has both the skills required and the desire to be where they are placed, it’s a win-win situation.

2. Determining what tasks to assign

• Once the training programs have been accomplished and the employees have been evaluated based on their skills, you should have a pretty firm idea of who you are going to put where within your company.

3. Considerations for task assignments

• • Experience
  • Training
  • Attitude
  • Efficiency

4. The benefits of tasking employees in accordance with their skill level

• • Efficient work flow
  • Less costly
  • High employee morale

5. drawbacks of not tasking employees in accordance with their skill level

• • Setbacks
  • Inefficient
  • Higher costs
  • Low morale

I hope you all garnered some useful information from this episode. You can reach me on facebook at facebook.com/groups/commonmanleadershipacademy and on Instagram @CMLeadership. There will be links in the show notes. I thank you all for listening and look forward to your feedback and insights! Get out there and crush it!

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