When your company grows, you will have to delegate many of the tasks you used to do.

Many bosses have a hard time giving these up and instead become overwhelmed.

If you have some staff and are feeling overwhelmed, consider these steps:

  1. Identify three or four tasks that you don’t want to do and that employees can learn.  If in doubt, pick one item and proceed to the next step.
  2. Select an employee that would be best suited to this task and might enjoy it. 
  3. Train them by showing them – have them observe you.
  4. Watch them do it, be patient, provide gentle feedback.
  5. Repeat this a few times until they are proficient. You should feel like they can do it without you being stressed.
  6. Stop doing the task –  you have transferred it already.
  7. Wait one or two months and monitor the new situation.
  8. Repeat the cycle with a few more tasks.

For additional ideas, see this short video:
https://youtu.be/ulZyDuiQcvs?si=HZ40iqXm3KhCAuZq

Please contact me with questions.