Look through the sentences and decide which of them are True(T), False (F).
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a) The most difficult thing for lawyers who rise to positions of managers is to find time to encoiurage the productivity of others.
b) The time spent on coaching, delegating, training is of a secondary importance.
c) Managers should be able to detect individual strengths and weaknesses of those around them.
d) A manager may be very self-sufficient, but he`ll never accomplsh what a well-organized team can do.
e) If you master delegation it will only increase your stress and enable you to devote more time to activities that lower firm profitability.
f) An effective delegation demands sacrificing time in the short-run in order to accomplish essential long-term goals.
g) Fresh managers often experience working through others as loosing control.
h) Managers who recognize the value of delegating work see it quite right.
i) A manager should not hand out assignments to the first jubior he run into, it requires an analysis before delegating the work.
j) You'll get the best work from people who feel that it they fail, you`ll fix everything for them.
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2) Try to remember the main idea of the text and put the sentences into the correct order.
a) Deal productively with mistakes.
b) Motivate through ownership.
c) Monitor performance.
d) It is necessary to coach.
e) A manager should be approachable.
f) Communicate and confirm.
g) Adjust your attitude.
h) Develop relationships with team members.
i) Decide what types of work to delegate.
j) Plan thoughtfully to whom you`ll give the task.
3) Circle the most appropriate synonym according to the contextual meaning of the underlined word.
| a) to fly: 1. to move 2. to work 3. to suspend | b) subordinates: 1. authorities 2. minorities 3. assistants |
| c) to hoard: 1. to hide 2. to accumulate 3. to forget | d) to reap: 1. to get 2. to cut 3. to harvest |
| e) associate: 1. member 2. partner 3. colleague | f) scope: 1. intention 2. purpose 3. range |
| g) crystal: 1. transparently 2. beatifully 3. purely | h) to micromanage: 1. to underestimate 2. to control 3. to overestimate |
| i) to elicit: 1. to find 2. to extract 3. to bring | j) harshness: 1. cruelty 2. rudeness 3. roughness |
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