The Business Bulletin
The what and how of delegation As an owner of a growing business, one of the greatest challenges can be delegating. Afterall you started the business, you know how best to do things and you want everyone to do the things the way you do, right?
I know your pain and I meet people
it up?’ ‘I love doing social media posts
You need more time, you are
every day who are struggling with the
struggling to get everything done and
and engagement won’t I miss it if I
same issues. Through my experience, I
you know you need help so what do
give it up?’
can fully appreciate the concerns and
you do? Whether you decide to employ
reluctance to delegate and it took
some extra people or outsource some
me years to be able to do it well and I
work you are still going to be giving up
would say that I still could have been
an element of your control. And that is
better at it. However, I did learn a few
a scary thought!
tips along the way – things that made it easier for me and the people who worked for me.
To one extent or another we all have these feelings and the reason, you feel like this is primarily that it often involves giving a colleague or outsourced contractor the right to make decisions that are officially tied
You start thinking; ‘Do I really want to take the time to explain
to your business and for which you are
this to someone else?’ ‘Or would it
ultimately responsible. It matters to
just be faster to do it myself?’ ‘It’s so
you, but you also know that you need
complicated will they be able to pick
to find a balance between working in the business (and the 18 hour days), and working strategically on the business, and looking at ways to grow and improve. I have come up with
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