How To Delegate At Work If You Can’t Let Go

30 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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30 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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Rick Lau and Karen Elliott discuss why clinic owners struggle to delegate and how to start small. Practice with your kids first, then shift to a supervisory mindset where you're above the work, not in it. Delegated tasks become training grounds for future employees.

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How do you get more new patients or hire more clinicians at your clinic and yet still remain profitable? This is the question, and I'm on a journey to get you the answer. I'm going to interview the best marketers and clinic owners across the world to give you access to their winning strategies from recruitment, marketing, operations, finance, and more. So you can easily take action on the secrets to grow your clinic. I'm Rick Lau. Welcome to Clinic Boss Secrets. Hey, everyone.
This episode we're gonna talk about delegation. You're gonna love it. Karen Elliott actually goes into the secrets of actually, how do you delegate effectively? Whether you're a parent or a leader? You're gonna love this episode.
My child.
I use my kids. My kids have been my best test.
Subjects for everything I've done in my life for work.
I use them the whole time.
And, you know, the nice thing is.
I see them using what I used.
On them in their lives.
Right. Learning to delegate to your kids is huge because guess what?
Then they actually turn out to be.
Employees that know how to do things because they've been delegated tasks. So practice with your kids. And they love it. Yeah. So they're the best test subjects for trying out difficult conversations, for trying out delegation. You delegate taking out the garbage to them.
Like, how many of you as parents.
If your parents in here, do you.
Still do things that you know damn.
Well your kids could do? But we do it anyway. We do it for them. Oh, I'll just do it because I.
Can get it done.
It's faster.
Oh, Paul.
Yeah, no, I 100% agree. It is kind of funny when you said that because it reminds me of. My dad would always say stuff like, I'm supervising. That's what I'm doing, and you are doing the work. And I always got upset with him about that, but now I realize, like, it's actually true. Like us as leaders, we have to be above all the work so we can make the right decisions.
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