YouTube video by Brian Tracy on improving delegation. The speaker contrasts bad delegation (doing everything yourself, leading to exhaustion and inefficiency) with effective delegation and lists benefits: focus on high-value tasks, team involvement and growth, improved quality of life, and higher morale. The video gives four practical principles: (1) identify your "core genius" and delegate tasks outside it; (2) teach people how to do tasks rather than merely assigning deadlines; (3) select and trust team members to complete work; and (4) give future-focused, solution-oriented feedback and recognition. Ends with a CTA to download a Personal Development Plan Template and to comment/subscribe.
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Are you a bad delegator? Resist reverse or upward delegation. Don't let others hand the job back to you. Brian Tracy when you have a role of responsibility or authority, whether it be your business, a leading role at work, or head of your family, the temptation can be to try to do everything yourself so it gets done right. But that often leads to exhaustion, inefficiencies, unmet deadlines, and slower progress and it just isn't realistic. Instead, delegation is the better approach to take. When you delegate, you assign tasks and responsibilities to others on your team. The benefits of delegation One more time to focus on the important tasks, especially those that only you can do or require your skill set. 2. Involvement of others, which creates cohesiveness and engagement within your team and helps others grow. 3. Increased quality of life for your frustrations and fatigue. And finally, number four boosted morale of your teammates as they feel more valued and motivated. So are you a good delegator or are you a bad delegator? If you're stressed out and trying to do everything yourself, you're probably delegating wrong. Use these tips to increase your productivity and enhance your workflow. First, know your core genius. Discover what you do and don't enjoy doing, what you're good at and what you're not good at. Then delegate those tasks that you don't enjoy or aren't good at. This is called finding your core genius, the intersection of the things that you both love to do and are great at doing anything outside of your core genius, you should probably delegate. The role of an effective manager is to move from doing your job to managing your job. Your role is to manage, not operate, and an essential part of fulfilling your role is to delegate. Second, teach, don't tell. Instead of telling someone what to do, teach them. Simply assigning the task and setting a deadline for when it needs to be done is not delegation, but abdication, which is giving up your responsibility for the task. Teaching a person how to complete the delegated tasks allows them to actually learn how to do it. At first this may seem time consuming, but the initial time and effort put into instructing will create better results not just for the project, but for the self worth and professional growth of the person completing the task. Excellent managers are able to elicit the highest quality of performance from those they manage. Teaching someone how to complete a task increases their productivity and ensures higher level results. Third, trust your team. As you're deciding which tasks to delegate, choose a member of your team who has both the skills and knowledge to complete the task successfully. Assure them that you know that they have the ability to get the job done well. Empowering others to do their best involves you constantly reminding them how good they are and how much you believe in them. Once you give someone a task or even an entire project, trust that they will get it done. Remember that your most valuable resources are the human resources around you, more so than any technological asset, equipment or tools. Delegating helps people grow, eventually increasing their value to your company, organization, team or group. Fourth, give future focused feedback. Mistakes will happen and as a leader you need to allow for that. When improvements need to be made, give solution oriented feedback. Instead of criticizing what they've done wrong, focus on what could be done better next time. Let people learn from their mistakes. People are more likely to be willing to take on delegated tasks when they're made to feel valuable. A good leader builds self esteem. Instead of focusing on the mistake and who's to blame for it, focus on the solution. Be honest and objective about the distance between what is expected and what actually occurred. Then invite ideas on how the problem can be solved. Remember, building up people builds up your organization. Not only should you uplift someone when mistakes are made, but you should also show your appreciation for a job well done. Say thank you. Recognize how their input made the project a successful. This will infuse motivation, loyalty and confidence for the next time you need to delegate responsibilities. Finally, moving from a bad delegator to a good one catapults your success as a manager and a leader. By finding your core genius, teaching people how to complete a task, trusting your team to get it done, and giving future focused feedback, you can delegate correctly and increase the success of any entity you're in charge of. To help you gain the skills needed to be an effective delegator, download Brian's Personal Development Plan Template. It's designed to help you identify the areas you need to improve and create an actionable plan that will increase your success and access your fullest potential. Now the question today is this. How can you be a better delegator? Leave a comment below and Brian will be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. And remember, as Brian always says, if you want to change your future, take action and take action now.
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