When Riddle asks if Leona would “dump the entire job” of cooking onto Trey and Jamil Leona explains, “Delegation’s all about assigning the right person to the right job,” and we see many examples of Leona delegating tasks to others throughout the game.
Leona explains, “Different people are cut out for different things. It’s best to give jobs to people who want them, or who are already good at them,” and explains to Floyd, “Imagine a star shooter getting put on defense, or telling someone with a slim frame to try and overpower his opponent. If a coach started making ridiculous demands, they’d basically be handing their opponents a free win…someone who lacks strength or stamina can still be useful.”
Spelldrive formations that played to each athlete’s unique traits were one of the things that so inspired a 13-year-old Jack Howl watching Leona compete on TV, resulting in Jack enrolling at NRC to play alongside him.
Watching Leona, Jack and Ruggie work together in the battle to reach Malleus in Book 7, Ortho compliments Leona, saying, “This is excellent teamwork that capitalizes on everyone’s strengths. Your situational awareness and judgement are really impressive, Leona.”
When Epel—the best first-year flier—asks Leona for help with his passes Leona refuses, saying that if he gets too greedy his main skill is going to suffer, and passing is basic magic that will improve as long as he keeps going to classes.
During Vargas Camp Leona delegates different tasks to his entire team, having Ruggie give on-site directions and Epel filling in where others have trouble, as he is accustomed to using the tools they have been provided.
Ruggie observes, “We’re doing way better than I expected” and a spelldrive club member agrees, saying, “We couldn’t have done it without Leona’s help.”
Leona also delegates tasks to various sports club members during Book 5 and teaches Ruggie the importance of doing so in a vignette: “Ain’t no reason why you gotta act like you’re alone here. Use your head…try seeing it from a pack leader’s perspective.”
Leona delegates tasks to Ace, Epel and Floyd during Spectral Soiree, though Ace is not impressed when Leona assigns himself the role of standing guard.
Ace asks, “How about showin’ some leadership?,” only for Leona to immediately scare away a ghost that had snuck up on them without anyone but Leona himself noticing. (Ace: “Okay, I admit that’s helpful, but still…”)
Leona takes silent instructions from his tsum during Tsumsted and has the first-year students stack up the various tsums, which pleases them. Leona observes, “That was some decent direction back there…Guess you really do take after me.” (Epel: “It looks dignified and mature. Leona’s so cool, even his tsum is that way.”)
Leading up to the grand Halloween of the NBC event Leona delegates tasks to the prefect, Trey and Jamil after Grim eats through their prepared snacks, and while the mayor panics over the time it will take to repair decorations that Grim has ruined Leona tells him to assign the task to the witches, instead, who can fly.
The mayor insists that the witches have been assigned elsewhere and Leona responds, “At this point, you gotta think efficiently and work out who can get a job done the fastest.”
When Jack Skellington agrees with Leona the mayor asks for additional help, and Skully observes that, with Leona in charge, everything is going smoothly: You assigned Vil to check how the fine embroidery came out, while assigning Idia to handle any complex calculations…I’ve been informed that you took everyone’s strengths into exhaustive account when reallocating these tasks.”
Leona insists that he has just “dumped all the hassles on other people” but Skully responds, “Such modesty,” telling him that Trey and Jamil were particularly grateful to Leona.
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