When delegating, don't use the word we unless it's absolutely what you mean. Ask other person to sum up what they heard me say and then talk about timing and deliverables for having a delegation conversation. Don't ask an executive assistant if she has any advice about t lik the right language to introduce a task like that. And when i went to school, we three questions that you ask at the end of mentoring are: What is going to happen next? When should we check in?"