How to Delegate with confidence?
Are you excessively buy? Do you struggle with delegation? If the answer is yes, then read this article and bring back free time with these helpful tips.
People have two works, one they love to do, and others they have to do. In the end, one figure out that there is a valuable time to do all the works. If you want to get rid of this conundrum, then you have to delegate dislike tasks to someone else. This is tougher than it sounds for a lot of people.
Whether you’re thinking to pass on a task to colleague, workers or even in a family member, there are two fundamentally reasons, you cannot delegate a task what you don’t like.
- You don’t have faith in other people to do the task right.
- You won’t or aren’t able to take the time to teach someone to do it right
In either condition, a lot of people select the path of slightest resistance, that is to generally do the task themselves. Unfortunately, this attitude perpetuates pretty low productivity and chronic burden. However, you don’t need to think about it at all because today I’m going to share some simple and necessary tips which help you break the job-hoggin cycle.
Keep a Process Journal
Before trusting someone else to do the job, we have to extract detailed info from our minds. For this, we need to identify those tasks (dislike task) and write down on a little pad or keep notes in the file on our computer. Just note down some inside guidelines about getting the job done right. According to Inc.com, A few minutes of writing can create a complete exclusive guideline in no time. this guideline supports possible delegates get projects close to right the first time.
Dedicate Lunch to Leaning
Suppose that people around you are wishing and ready to work on new projects, very likely they have insufficient training and guidance. If you are waiting to train them until the project is upon you, they will unable to freeing you from the project. So, my advice for all of you, try to use casual time to educate new about those tasks (dislike task). It doesn’t matter whether you are teaching one or 5, you can invite for launch to those who want to learn, buy lunch for them. I believe that a few lunches later, you will have a plethora’s alternative source when you are ready to concentrate your time and energy on what you love to do the tasks.
Encourage Self-Delegation
Its human nature that something you don’t like at all and another person loves the thing a lot. What I want to say, the tasks you don’t like could be another person’s dream job. You can create a messaging platform whether physical or electronic in an easily seen place in your environment where every individual can list task, they are excited to pass long. Offer a wishful reward to those who are going to learn and do those assignments to acknowledgeable standards.
In case you still feel that it is hard to delegate, here is a dramatic measure which I took from Inc.com, 7 years ago, Paul Orfalea (Founder of Kinko’s) was at a conference of entrepreneur’s organization where he relayed this serious and powerful suggestion regarding delegation:
If you are planning to go on vacation for one week, you will return to two weeks of work.
If you are going on vacation for two weeks, you will return to four weeks of work.
If you are going on vacation for three weeks, one seems to find it out for oneself.
His advice, go on vacation for three weeks so you can return to just the projects you love to do. he believes that it works all the time.
