It is important to not always delegate to the same people but to fully utilise your resource and develop/motivate all your team. If you delegate too much to one person they will just be unhappy and stressed.

Focus on an individuals skill and will level for a certain task. How capable are they of doing something and how motivated are they to do it? Ideally they should have high skill and high will, however to develop people it can also be good to delegate to those with a low skill and high will as these are motivated to learn and will want to achieve a good result.

Experience, knowledge and skills of an individual

• What knowledge, skills and attitude does this person already have?
• Do you have the time and resources to provide any training needed?

Individuals preferred work style

• How independent is this person?
• What do they want from their job?
• What are their long term goals/interests and how do these align with the work proposed?

Current workload of the person

• Do they have time to take on more work
• Will you delegating this task require reshuffling of other responsibilities and workloads

What if they don't want to do it?

• Ask yourself and them why?
• Are they fearful they won't know how?
• Are they too busy?
• Consider and agree any solutions with them to gain commitment because the more committed they are, they more likely they are to succeed.