A short leadership-advice video by Ben Morton advising new or promoted leaders to identify tasks, processes, and relationships they continue to own but should delegate. The speaker frames delegation not as dumping work but as empowerment and development that helps others grow and frees the leader to focus on responsibilities only they can perform.
Or a more powerful question to ask is this, what am I continuing to do since stepping up into a new leadership position that I really should let go of and delegate to someone else? It's likely you'll be holding on to stuff you enjoy doing, or a process you built, or a relationship that you built that is important, but you are no longer the one to be leading on it. And remember, delegation isn't about offloading stuff or dumping stuff on your people. It's about empowerment and development. It helps others grow whilst freeing you up to focus on the things that only you and you alone can do.
