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Be clear in your instructions. Maintain professionalism in your emails. Provide concise, thoughtful, and actionable feedback.
Look at The Management Center online. It has some good free tools for how to assign, delegate, and manage work of others. That site is geared towards public interest offices but a lot of it could be applied to other management contexts too.
T1, thank you for this breakdown. I’m going to try it in my own practice!
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I would be more concerned about them being overbearing than you being overbearing. They will try to suck the life out of you if you don't create boundaries and encourage problem solving.
Delegate smaller tasks with more check-ins. Like T1 advised, but true for other areas of practice as well. Don’t assign a whole research project and hope to review the whole work product at once. Instead, give one issue at a time, and check in often. I often will give an assignment, tell them to follow up with an email on how they plan to approach it, course correct there if needed, then have a short check in meeting scheduled after they’ve spent 1-2 hours on it, course correct, etc. It is very hands on, but at least you’re not left trying to redo terrible work product on a short timeline because you expected too much with too little direction.
Maintain professional work boundaries. Don’t play favorites. Don’t treat them like dating prospects, (yes, the advisor for student interns at my firm is a massive creep).