A common cause for ineffective team management is poor delegation skills. Often, when priorities need clearing in shorter timescales, the supervisor's solution is to increase their personal effort or adopt an authoritarian approach to team members. This causes alienation, even resistance, and often induces stress, even chaos. A few delegation skills goes a long way.

Supervisor Training needs to recognise that supervisor time is in fact the sum of the time available from his/her team, and that without effective delegation skills management demands for utilisation and development of the team resource cannot be achieved. However, to be effective delegation skills must include developmental processes.