New entrepreneurs often take up responsibilities by themselves completely without the assistance of anyone helping them out at the beginning of the business, this idea of taking up lots of roles at the beginning of the business might be instilled in them for a very long time making it difficult for them to easily delegate task to staff whenever they get one.
A good entrepreneur understands the importance of being able to delegate task to other people, delegation makes it possible to focus on activities that are extremely important and get a better result from all the activities combined.
As good as it is to delegate, there are things that you will want to handle on your own knowing that you are the best fit for that task, in order to begin the process of delegation, make a list of every activity that needs to be done first then make a decision on which of the task needs to be carried out first and which other ones needs to be delegated, figure out the ones that should be delegated then pen them down.
The second thing is to consider the best person to delegate the task to, the fact that one of your staff appears to be really competent with his work does not mean that every of the work load should be placed on the shoulders of that staff, spread the work and allow everyone have a share of their duty to perform but while you are delegating the task, you also want to make sure that you give out the task to competent employees (every employee needs to be competent), during the process of employment, you want to look out for the best type of people for the job you are employing them for, so when it comes to delegation it will be easy for you to give out task amongst the variety of individuals you have.
Even after delegating task to your employees, a regular check-up is very important, making them understand the duties they have to carry out and how they should go about the entire assignment is of a necessary importance.
The fact that a worker is good at a profession does not mean that you as the employee should just ignore the aspect of necessary check-ups, make sure that you continue to check-up on staff even after delegation. Follow up with their assignment, remind them about the deadlines and the details they must not ignore. Becoming the boss is definitely a whole lot of task but when we know how to delegate, it makes things a little easier for us and gives us the time to get focused on other activities.
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"A good entrepreneur understands the importance of being able to delegate tasks to other people", I think this action, is the key to success of any business leader, even though, many strive to concretize all activities because they do not trust that other people can perform them with the same effectiveness, as you rightly point out, it is best to distribute the work delegating certain activities, and then simply follow up. Thank you very much for socializing this type of content.