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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I have been on the other side of this scenario... as the overwhelmed boss.

I often felt like it would take me more time to explain how to do something than to just do it myself - or to explain all of the pieces of the puzzle.

Two strategies - insert yourself into situations where you can learn more about what's going on and, therefore, be more useful.  One thing I learned was to let my assistant sit in on lots of meetings, because then he understands the context, what's going on, etc., and it's easier to hand things off to him.  Second strategy - suggest concrete things and describe how you'll do them.  (I'd be less interested in your analysis of how it will help me -- what your former boss described -- and more interested in you convincing me that you know what you're doing)

I had an assistant who would stand in my office and NOT LEAVE until I had given her something to do.  I loved her.  :-)[/quote]

Ditto on this.
I'm in the exact spot. I am totally overwhelmed and have an assistant who keeps asking for work.
However she has no knowledge of the complexities of the things I need to do. Training her is something I don't have time to do.
So I give her the admin tasks I can but otherwise she's pretty useless to me.
I'd like it if she would get aggressive about learning about what I do, our products and customers and processes and procedures and really dig into my department and our organization. I'd feel much more comfortable delegating.
She definitely pulls the "give me some work and it's going to do xyz for you" but I find it annoying that she thinks my work is so simple that it's a matter of easily handing her a task. It's not.[/quote]

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