Let’s address the issue of delegation. Delegation is necessary for any large scale project to be successful, but more important, delegation is necessary to build a team, a collaborative environment, and a positive culture to fuel your business. Delegation can become a very big issue, but…
You’re only one person. You can’t do it all by yourself. That’s why it pays to voice your grander vision and recruit a strong team that resonates with that vision while also complimenting your strengths and weaknesses.
Okay, so you’ve built a strong team! But what good is a team if you don’t work like a team? These aren’t your employees. These are your business partners and you should act as one symbiotic unit. The most important distinction we should make when it comes to defining how we delegate is giving Tasks versus giving Responsibility.
Why is this an important distinction? Well, look at it this way. You have a larger vision for the future and you believe in that vision. That vision motivates you and energizes you to get things done. If your team doesn’t share that vision, they’ll only work as much as they have to in order to get paid. If your team does share that vision and takes ownership of it, they become clones of yourself in terms of motivation and energy; they do what they need to do to get closer to the vision (payment becomes an added bonus). They become passionate about the cause!
So if you want your team to adopt your vision and take ownership of a project, they need responsibilities; not tasks.
The most difficult hurdle about delegating responsibility is trusting your team to do the job as well as you would, but if you’ve built a strong team, you’re going to need to trust them before any real culture or collaborative environment materializes.
Give your team a sense of ownership, a sense of responsibility, and allow them a little bit of free reign to create new things in line with the vision, and you will release a culture beast that’s bound to snowball into success.
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