42 / 46
The Power of Delegation
By Beth Caldwell
One of the most powerful things
that you can do to move forward
in your career is delegate. It’s
also one of the things that most
leaders struggle with.
I work with a lot of women
who tend to do EVERYTHING
at their workplace. You may be
familiar with this person, she
is the go-to person that knows
every process, every system,
every secret, every answer
and solves every problem. If a
crisis occurs, everyone turns
to Nancy Know-it-All. She’s
invaluable to the company and
we don’t even want to think of
where we would be if anything
would happen to Nancy.
Have you ever considered
that being invaluable actually
holds the company hostage?
When everyone depends on
one person to make all the
decisions and handle every
issue, future leaders aren’t able
to learn and gain experience.
Important talents go untapped
and ambitious people will look
for employment elsewhere.
Even worse, when you make
yourself invaluable you’ll never
be promoted. Why would you
be given a promotion or a pay
raise if you’re already being paid
to do everything?
What’s the solution? You can
begin by delegating. I know
that you don’t want to delegate
because you know how to do
the job quickly and efficiently.
But guess what? There may be
someone out there who can do
tasks even better or faster than
you can. You just have never
given them a chance.
Your first delegation task is
to make a list of all the tasks
that you do daily, weekly and
monthly. If you’re like me, there
will be a lot of items. Next,
circle the tasks that ONLY you
can do. The things that you are
brilliant at, the things that make
you the most money, the things
that your clients praise you for
the most.
Everythingelsecanbedelegated;
such as, newsletter, working on
my next book. On that list the
one thing that only I can do is the
SOAR TO SUCCESS
/
N
ovember
2016
/
Business Acceleration Strategies