Hi, I wanted to say something along the lines of my coworker took on/accepted responsibility for/assumed responsibility for/took on the responsibility of a new territory that wasn't his before. (If it matters, he did so on his own accord.) Does anyone have any word choices I haven't yet thought of? Maybe even some creative ones. Thank you.
My first thought was that you want an antonym to the word "delegate", so I Googled that, and I found other people who wanted such an antonym and failed. So I think that your phrases above may be as good as it gets.
Good idea. And you could be right, sir, I just hope you aren't. Remain open to all hopefully forthcoming suggestions. Thanks.
Unfortunately no. It's almost the opposite. He willingly took on something others weren't willing to.
Mop up? Clean up? Garbage collection? Probably also not what you had in mind, but maybe another avenue of thought.
Extended his responsibility to include/ absorbed the area into his own/ brought under his umbrella? Heard all these used in meetings before.
TBh if 'Took on' works, use that -' Bob took on the new sales area' we can over think things sometimes
Agreed. Is a bad ass, 25 cent word really needed to convey this thought? I'm sure it's important in whatever context you wrote it, but a guy assuming a sales territory is not as interesting as a guy removing his eyeballs with an ice cream scoop.