Delegating

Do any of these excuses sound familiar:

1. I can do it better myself

2. I can do it quicker myself

3. I am afraid someone else will screw it up

4. I will have to do so much hand-holding, I might as well just do it myself

5. I do not have anyone on my team that can do it

6. I do not want to overload my team members with my work

It’s a great list of reasons and they all have truth in them. However, the job of a leader is to develop the potential of each team member. Delegating is a great opportunity for team members that promotes high engagement by keeping the work challenging and interesting. It is also a tool that allows leaders to do the more strategic work that often gets put off because they are down in the weeds.  Delegating not only provides a clear and effective process for delegating to team members, supervisors will leave this class with a complete delegation plan.