Development Opportunity

The tactic of motivating someone to take on a task, project or assignment they might reasonably refuse, by pretending it is a development opportunity.

Good managers use delegation as an effective means of developing skills, experience and self-confidence in those whom they manage and lead. A genuine development opportunity provides a stretching and testing task from which new learning results. The employee is ...

These are not very funny, they are very serious and cause lots of problems for people. If you want to find out how to protect yourself from this, and many others, you'll find this book provides extensive help, practical advice and lots of encouragement to influence with integrity and stop the damage!

21 Dirty Tricks at Work by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.