In my experience,
there are two types of people
on your project team.
There are the
‘do it now’ folks.
People like me
who prefer to do a task right away
and get it off their to do list.
They don’t want to do half a task.
They want to get it done and move on.
And there are the
‘do it at the last minute’ folks.
These are the people
who ask when a deadline is.
They ask
because that is the day
they plan to do the task.
Again, they plan to do it all at one time.
I recently received information about a contest.
It was sent now
and
we could sign up now
but we weren’t allowed to send the entries
until February.
The organizers are wondering why there were no entries.
Why?
Because the last minute people
will wait until February.
The do it now people if they did it now
will still have the item on their to-do list
so they also didn’t bother entering.
When delegating tasks,
design them so they can be completed at one time.
You’ll increase the likelihood
of it getting done.