Beyond Instructions: Delegating Responsibilities, Not Just Tasks. (The Worksheet)

When you need a diced bell pepper, what matters is that you have a diced bell pepper, not how it was chopped. 

Getting things done in your business is not that different. 

What matters in your business is getting results while respecting your principles. Those are the boundaries. Within those boundaries, there is space to play, innovate, and grow. 

Delegation is responsibility

You are not here to delegate tasks. 

You are here to delegate responsibility. 

By training and developing your workforce, you give them ownership of certain areas of your business.

So talk less about the individual steps of a thing, and talk more about the purpose that thing serves. 

Responsibility is ownership

If you delegate work to an employee and only tell them enough about it so that they can follow a single series of tasks, then you are not benefiting from delegation. 

You are not freeing up your time. 

You are not finding better ways to do the work. 

You are not training your team. 

What you are doing, is micro-managing. 

Delegate responsibility

So when you delegate work – whether to an employee, an outside service, or a software product – discuss that responsibility. 

Explain why the work matters, and what success looks like. 

Use this week’s worksheet to prepare for your delegation conversations. 

What next

Let’s start at the beginning: If your business doesn’t have goals and objectives, let’s work on them together.