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:
- 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.
- Select an employee that would be best suited to this task and might enjoy it.
- Train them by showing them – have them observe you.
- Watch them do it, be patient, provide gentle feedback.
- Repeat this a few times until they are proficient. You should feel like they can do it without you being stressed.
- Stop doing the task – you have transferred it already.
- Wait one or two months and monitor the new situation.
- Repeat the cycle with a few more tasks.
For additional ideas, see this short video:
https://youtu.be/ulZyDuiQcvs?si=iEImJyrMtzKVFbA-
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