Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Stop Doing Stuff and Delegate! #delegation #worksmarter

1 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold advises entrepreneurs to audit everything on their plate by listing each task in Excel (one task per row), categorizing tasks in Column B using four labels — I (incompetent), C (competent), E (excellent), U (unique ability) — and recording an effective hourly rate in Column C to identify delegation opportunities. His recommendation: if you don’t have someone to delegate to, find someone and delegate the task.

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Excel (one row per task).

I = incompetent; C = competent; E = excellent (good at it but may not love it); U = unique ability (good at it and love doing it).

Column C.

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I guess the basic training I would start for the entrepreneurs listening would be this first one is examine everything that's on your plate today, all the stuff that you do. What I like to do is then make a list. I open up Excel and I make a list. In Excel, one row is a task. So I might have 82 rows, meaning 82 different tasks of things that I do daily, weekly, hourly. In column B, I categorize them in one of four ways, either I for incompetent, meaning I suck at that task. C for competent, meaning I'm okay at that task. E for excellent, meaning I'm really, really good at it, but I don't necessarily love to do it. And then U for unique ability, meaning I'm really, really good at it and I love doing it. And then in column C, I put down an effective hourly rate. If I was going to pay someone to do just that task all day long, all week long, what would I pay them as an hourly rate? Often entrepreneurs say, well, I don't have anyone to delegate it to. Well, find someone and delegate it to them.