So I'm getting someone else to do my work? Delegation is very powerful. Yet, for new managers, the process can feel really weird. A career spent as an individual contributor, where one is responsible for taking tasks and executing on them until they are finished, feels an entire galaxy away from this new role where tasks are often delegated to someone else. It's especially challenging for those with perfectionist qualities in their own work: how will you even know it's being done right? As strange and uncomfortable as it first appears, delegating is an absolutely essential tool for a manager. Mastering delegation, and thus building your team so that they can expertly carry out those delegated tasks, is the key to understanding and increasing your output.
Delegation
Delegation
Delegation
So I'm getting someone else to do my work? Delegation is very powerful. Yet, for new managers, the process can feel really weird. A career spent as an individual contributor, where one is responsible for taking tasks and executing on them until they are finished, feels an entire galaxy away from this new role where tasks are often delegated to someone else. It's especially challenging for those with perfectionist qualities in their own work: how will you even know it's being done right? As strange and uncomfortable as it first appears, delegating is an absolutely essential tool for a manager. Mastering delegation, and thus building your team so that they can expertly carry out those delegated tasks, is the key to understanding and increasing your output.