Letting Go.
The art of leadership.
I’ve worked with dozens of clients, both in 1:1 and in group coaching.
While everyone understands the benefits of delegation, most of my clients struggle with it.
Here are the 4 main problems they have:
1) Substandard work.
It’s hard watching someone mess up a task you can do easily in half the time.
And it’s even harder to keep your mouth shut because you know micromanaging is frustrating to both you & your direct report.
So get frustrated with delegation and end up doing all the work themselves.
They stop trusting the team — and the team stops trusting their leader.
And they end up working more hours and having more stress than ever before.
2) Identity change.
When you become a manager, you quickly realize you’ll need to change your identity to be successful.
You’re no longer a specialist — using your body of knowledge to get things done. Now, you need to become a generalist — a jack of many trades.
Leaders don’t have precise job definitions
You need to surrender the set of skills that made you valuable and got you here, as well as the gratification that went with applying them.
To surrender the greatest pleasures of your professional life.
They end up very hands-on in projects they know deep down they should be delegating this work.
But they just can’t bring themselves to do it.
And so the work keeps piling up…
3) Competitiveness.
Most managers are extremely competitive. Competitiveness is what made them rise to the ranks and become managers.
When you’re in a leadership position, your job is to empower others.
And when you’re competitive, it’s hard to watch others reach ability levels superior to your own.
You’re no longer the best at everything.
Delegating means letting others become the experts.
If that’s not your goal, you’ll quickly lose the trust of your team.
4) Being a beginner again.
When you become a leader, you have to learn a whole new job.
Now you have to decide where your team & organization should go, keep your team happy, and the company on track. It’s strategy, finance, and people management.
Everything is new, which means leaving your comfort zone.
It means learning the art of leadership.
This Thursday I’m running a workshop where you & I will address these 4 main problems and learn the art of leadership & delegation.
The name is The Effective Delegation System because we want one simple outcome:
To delegate effectively so you can empower your team and make a bigger impact.
We’ll make your delegation effective in 3 simple steps:
First, we’ll focus on what you need to do before delegating.
Most people believe delegation is passing tedious & unimportant work to others.
Effective delegation starts with you before everything else. We’ll use my easy framework to discover what you can delegate and to whom you should be delegating.
So you can take things off your plate and focus on the things only YOU can do.
Effective delegation allows your team members to develop their skills and improve themselves, thus becoming more valuable to you and your team.
This is not about passing tedious work. It’s about empowering your team to work on meaningful & important work.
(because if it’s not important, why is anyone doing it?)
By the end of this first step, you’ll have a list of projects & tasks ready to be delegated to the appropriate people on the very same day.
Second, we’ll cover what you need to do during delegation.
When most leaders think of delegation, this is the step they’re thinking about.
But it’s also the most misunderstood step.
Because most leaders handle out tasks instead of handing over responsibility & problems.
The first is tedious and meaningful tasks.
The second unlocks creativity and promotes skills development.
To become an effective delegator, you’ll need to focus on the latter.
We’ll cover the 4 elements of effective delegation + the 5 levels. This is not complex — it’s quite simple. But most leaders overlook them.
By the end of this second step, you’ll have a clear playbook to delegate problems effectively.
Third, we’ll cover what you need to do after delegating.
The most critical step of any system is the feedback loop — it allows the system to improve over time.
In this step, we’ll cover how to improve your delegation system — so that the work you do once can be used again (and again, and again).
When you hear “don’t work harder, work smarter”, this is it.
We’ll create a dynamic library of your work knowledge that you & your team can use at a moment’s notice.
This will save you precious time immediately and hundreds of hours over the course of a year.
The workshop is live on Thursday May 16th @ 10AM EST
The only catch is that you won’t be able to buy after the deadline.
Recording and resources are included for life to everyone who buys before the deadline.
Get access here:
https://go.dansilvestre.com/effective-delegation
(This invite expires in 3 days).
See you there.
Dan