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4 questions to ask to decide if you should delegate or do it yourself

Work Life

If you aren’t sure whether or when to delegate, you’re not alone. People often fear delegating. They worry about things such as others not doing the task well, or that delegating somehow implies they can’t pull their weight. She loves sales, which she sees as helping clients solve their problems.

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This is how you empower your team while maintaining strategic oversight

Work Life

Despite having a capable team, Maria conducts frequent check-ins, requests detailed reports, and personally reviews code before deployment. Jason, a sales director, is coaching a group of midlevel sales managers tasked with expanding into a new market.

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4 things to do when you get a promotion—and avoid sabotaging your success

Work Life

If you’re doing your direct reports’ jobs, no one is doing yours. Delegate more When you’re a top performer, it’s easy to fall into the mindset that “I can do this better than anyone else so I should just do it myself. How will you be evaluated? What’s really your responsibility?

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Business Unusual: Delegation & Remote Workers

Ruby

It really breaks it up into digestible chunks, make sure they’re able to do the activities, report back, review. And that way you’ll actually see some, because you’ll see reports that go out. Did you need to generate that report? Or could you have said, “Hey, due process, or do report one. Send this to so-and-so.”

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Combat Workplace Burnout by Setting Better Boundaries

Success

I wanted my name on sales reports. In reality, most bosses (myself included) lack a true understanding of the details and nuances of the tasks they’re delegating. When I was a young manager, I used to start with the decision point and sell it to my direct reports from there. Now, my direct reports keep a “Mike List.”

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4 Time Wasters in Your Small Business

The Receptionist

They have to manage it all — products or services, employees, expenses, marketing, sales, and growth. Client files should go in one folder, expense reports in another, and so on. Delegate when possible You’re juggling a lot already as a small business owner, so find ways to delegate tasks to your employees.

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Why this CEO is all in on ‘immersive leadership’

Work Life

Any CEO worth their salt is effective at delegating responsibilities, and they empower and trust team members to make and own key decisions. stores for three hours to retrain baristas on making the perfect espresso, an art he felt employees had lost touch with and contributed to declining sales.