Art of Delegation

Time has become so inadequate! As owner or manager in charge, it’s too easy to believe you should be the best at or involved in everything in the business, which is impossible. You should be spending time identifying the strengths and weaknesses of you and the team then using everyone (yourself included) as effectively as possible. Most people, myself included, sometimes guilty of trying to mould a set job around people or vice-versa rather than looking at individual tasks separately then assigning the various aspects to the people whose strengths are in those areas. We get preoccupied with 'a job' sometimes rather than sets of specific tasks which require certain skills. Sadly easier said than done when involved in an owner managed business and after throwing the bane of all our lives into the equation - ad-hoc work!

Leaders, let's take advantage of delegation of duties...so that you could free up time to think about other areas of the business.