Delegating: 4 Simple Steps Leaders Can Take to Free Up Time While Getting More Done

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you hope to grow your revenue, your teams, and your company, you have to find a way to delegate. There’s simply no way around it.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, co-hosts Richard Lindner and Jeff Mask take on the evergreen, but ever-challenging, topic of delegation. Delegation is something all leaders need to take a look at annually (okay, and monthly, weekly, daily), but it’s especially timely right now. As we kick off a new year and aspire to achieve new goals, we realize we can’t continue to own everything we owned</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">last</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">year if we hope to grow</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">this</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">year. We’ve got to find a way to hand off tasks.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So how do we do it? Who do we delegate to? How do we let go of control? How do we set the person up for success?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in as Richard and Jeff answer all of these important questions and more. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The Delegation Doom Loop</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re paralyzed by fear at the very thought of delegation, you’re not alone. Maybe you’ve delegated in the past and gotten burned. Maybe you tried to delegate and ended up wasting a bunch of time and doing everything yourself anyway.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeff says that leaders often find themselves in a difficult doom loop when they try to delegate:</span></p> <p> </p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I’m so overwhelmed</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I semi-delegate a critical task</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">I semi-train someone on said task</span><