Why Communication Is Key To Delegation

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Have you ever experienced micromanaging before? I used to work with someone who would ask me to do something and then when I came to do it, I would realise he had already done it himself.

He didn’t do it on purpose but he couldn’t let go and trust anyone else to get it done. It is so easy to be that person.

I don’t like to be accused of nagging my husband, but I realised recently that I’ve created a subtle way of nagging without nagging. Have you seen that meme that says ‘ladies, if your husband says he’ll do something, he’ll do it, there’s no need to remind him every 6 months’? We joke about that quite a bit in my house.

When I’m subtly nagging without nagging, I’ll say something like ‘when you gave that form into school, did they ask us to do anything else?’. What I’m actually asking is ‘did you remember to hand in the form’ but because I know he’ll think to himself (or even say), ‘you don’t need to nag me’ and roll his eyes.

If you’re handing over responsibility for a particular area of your business to someone in your team, you need to have the right communication points in place so that you can see the status of the parts you need to know about, without having to nag and second-guess them.

Because if you’re still assuming responsibility for whether the form gets handed in, or whether that email got sent, you haven’t really outsourced it.

You need to reduce your mental load. If you’re still trying to carry everything and everyone, you are going to struggle to do what you are meant to be doing. Handing over responsibility means exactly that, making it someone else’s role. 

When you are mapping out how you will outsource an area of your business, think about how you and your team will communicate with each other so they know what needs doing, and you know it has been done without having to constantly check. 

Let me know in the comments, what tools do you use to keep track of what’s happening in your business?

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