Delegation Dysfunction Apprehension

Every leader or manager at some point experiences what I call Delegation Dysfunction Apprehension, DDA. I know it sounds like a deadly disorder, right? But you know that feeling in the pit of your stomach that in spite of your very detailed instructions and directions, in spite of all the resources you give to your team member, that they will simply find a way to mess up, to blow the game, to screw up the task that you have delegated to them. Delegation dysfunction apprehension. And you know what happens when your team member messes up, right? Invariably, you, the manager, gets the blame because, as you know, in leadership and management The buck stops with you. The buck stops with me. So take, for example, Game 4 of the World Series between the Atlanta Braves— that's my team, my hometown team— and the Houston Astros. Game 4. So the Astros were leading 2 to 1 in the 7th inning. And both managers, Dusty Baker, the Astros manager, and Brian Snitker, the manager of the Atlanta Braves, they both delegated a crucial role to a team member. So Dusty Baker, on the one hand, delegated the pitching responsibilities to the reliever Christian Javier. Now, he had been pitching fabulously, excellently in his previous games, pitching at a high level. So Dusty Baker's delegation dysfunction apprehension his fear of delegating a task may have been pretty low. But trust me, at some level deep inside, that feeling of DDA still lingered. That there's a small chance that maybe as good as Christian was, that he might blow the lead. Right? Delegation dysfunction apprehension. Now, Snitka, Snitka, I can never pronounce his name correctly, Snitka, The Braves manager delegated the hitting responsibilities to Jorge Solero. He asked Solero to pinch-hit in the 7th inning. Again, as with every major delegation decision, I'm sure Snitker had that feeling that his decision could backfire. It could go wrong. There's always this lingering DDA, And someone that says they never have that DDA is probably not really in touch with their feelings as a leader-manager. All right. I'm sure like these two managers, you have delegated critical task projects to staff and you've had this feeling of delegation dysfunction, right? The fear that the delegatee would underperform. And it's okay to have this DDA, this delegation dysfunction apprehension. But there are 5 things that you can do to drastically minimize or in some cases even eliminate delegation dysfunction. Oh, by the way, back to the game. So I'm an Atlanta Braves fan since 1991, so you know I was celebrating Brian Snitker, the Braves manager's delegation decision. His delegation decision turned out to be just perfect. In fact, it worked out really well because Solero, the team member to whom he delegated the pinch-hitting responsibilities, Solero hit the go-ahead home run to win the game for the Atlanta Braves. Now Dusty Baker, he wasn't so fortunate. The manager of the Houston Astros, his delegation dysfunction apprehension turned out, well, not so good for his team.

2-1 pitch, driven in the air to left, back at the wall, it is gone!

Back-to-back!

Braves take the lead!

3-2! But there are 5 things that you can do as a leader-manager to minimize this delegation dysfunction apprehension. I'm going to share with you a link to a free leadership training on the 5 things that leaders and managers could do to drastically minimize, or in some cases even eliminate, this delegation dysfunction apprehension. Check out the link below. It's totally free. It's guaranteed to give you at least 5 practical and powerful tools, tips, and strategies that you could begin to implement so that your delegation dysfunction apprehension is minimized or even eliminated. Hey, thanks for listening. Go Braves! Go Braves! All right.