Team-Work Accountability
In a haste to delegate and decrease your responsibilities, you may hand tasks and duties to someone else. I highly encourage it when you are looking to acquire more freedom from stress and more time to take part in what you love. But when the tasks are for a shared vision you need to take the time in the beginning to make sure you are not putting the extra weight on their back before you teach them how to work with it on their back. Delegation is a shared process and will be added as a chapter by itself in the eBook “Parents Cost Us Money Too”, as a matter of prevention over clean-up.
In the beginning the vision needs to merge between the partners. Not only the desired result of both parties, but also the process and timeline. By communicating a timeline together there is a lesser necessity to make frequent meetings in the future, which results in exactly what you wanted: more time!
Delegation is tough… to start
When you begin delegating you will often feel that you are doing even more work than before. I thought the point of delegation was to give you freedom and remove stress from your life? This empowering result of delegation comes AFTER you follow the four D’s of delegation.
1. Define the problem
What is the issue at hand? What are you delegating?
2. Discover the resolution for the issue
Ask questions to focus on the result of the delegation.
3. Discern the ideas by brainstorming
How are you going to get the desired result? What will work? What wont? What needs to be taught?
4. Direct the partner– the most important.
What resources do you have available to increase their success rate? What role will you play while they carry out the task? Are there other members of your team that assist?
There you have it, a quick and straightforward approach to delegating. Remember, it is often difficult to start but you only have to focus on the results that delegating will offer. Need further help or a more in-depth reasoning behind an aspect of delegation, feel free to comment and I will get back to you within 24 hours.
Stay Positive and Delegate
Garth E. Beyer
