# Vocabulary and tips for DELEGATION - Business English lesson

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 1 Jul 2025, 25 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2022761/episodes/17433733-vocabulary-and-tips-for-delegation-business-english-lesson.mp3

Send us Fan Mail Delegating in English can be challenging for new managers, especially if speaking English is your second language. Today's podcast is full of Business English and professional vocabulary, grammar, and tips, to help you to sound more natural and native when speaking to your colleagues in English at work and delegating tasks to them. Whether you're delegating tasks to your staff and your team, or you're accepting tasks delegated to you from your managers, hopefully you'll find value in today's podcast. Do you want to work with me to improve your English? Click here: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com Do you want me to analyse your English on YouTube? Contact me here: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com/contact Do you want to see what I do? Click here: https://youtu.be/K8MsvDdV1vI?si=SuW_o2Vacqn9olDT Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the vocabulary in this episode really useful. This podcast is all about helping you to communicate better, in English, at work. I work with international English speakers from around the world who use English, at work, as a second or third language and I hope that I can bring some of the ideas, vocabulary, and grammar, from those sessions, to you in this podcast. Don’t forget that my full time job is helping international professionals who use English at work to improve their communication skills. So, if you need English to do your job but don’t speak it natively then maybe we can work together to help you to achieve your language goals. Support the show Book a coaching session with me at: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com

## Transcript

Welcome to the Breakout Business English podcast, where I help you to communicate better at work in English. Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I'm a business English coach and tutor. Thank you so much for listening and today's topic is delegation. One of the most challenging parts of moving into a leadership role is often giving tasks to other people to complete. As an individual contributor, People get used to doing everything themselves and completing those tasks to a high standard. That's often why they get promoted into leadership roles. This often means that new managers try to do everything. They think that they are always the best person to complete a task, and so they end up taking far too much responsibility. There is an old saying in English, an old proverb, that goes something like, if you want a job doing right, then you should do it yourself. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Today's podcast is the opposite of that. Today, we're talking about when to give up responsibility. When to pass tasks to other people, and how to talk about delegation and delegating tasks. We'll be hearing some really natural and native sounding vocabulary that we can use to achieve this. And we'll be hearing some great grammar structures that you can use to communicate with your colleagues and team members the next time that you need to delegate something or maybe accept a delegated task. Let's start today with some natural and native sounding ways to delegate tasks. For telling your team or your colleagues that you want them to complete a task that is now their responsibility.Do you think you could take this off my hands, please? I just think you'd do a better job than I could, and I really don't have the bandwidth right now. Do you think you could take this off my hands, please? I just think you'd do a better job than I could, and I really don't have the bandwidth right now.I'd really appreciate it if you could take care of this for me. It shouldn't take you

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