Ben MortonLeadership Trainer, Coach and Speaker

Maximise your leadership effectiveness by delegating tasks.

11 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief leadership advice segment, the speaker emphasizes the importance of ruthlessly eliminating tasks that no longer add value and focusing on strategic delegation. He urges leaders to critically assess their to‑do lists, identify activities that can be stopped entirely, and ask whether tasks they continue to perform after stepping into a leadership role should instead be handed off to others. The core message is to protect a leader’s time by shedding unnecessary work and delegating responsibilities that do not require the leader’s direct involvement.

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You need to start here by getting really ruthless. Ask yourself, what can I stop completely? Because as a leader, a manager, your time is just too valuable to be wasting on things that no longer matter. Next up is delegate. There will be some things that can't be ditched. They do still need to be done, but do they need to be done by you? So look at your to do list again and ask yourself, what can I delegate to someone else? 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?