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We often say to ourselves, " I need to learn to let go more." What does that mean? Let go of WHAT? I believe it's the beginning of a BRILLIANT idea that most of us fail to ever push forward on. The idea of EMPOWERMENT.
Empowerment by definition means, to give power or authority to; authorize, esp. by legal or official means. To me it means - to give someone the POWER and ABILITY to make decisions without your knowledge or direct involvement. Why would we do that? By ALLOWING someone that you have a high level of TRUST for you, we are able to DELEGATE the tasks others are best suited for and free ourselves to "LET GO" of difficult tasks that eat up our TIME and ENERGY.
Sounds great, eh? Here's the kicker… you MUST be confident in that person, such that if an error in judgment is made, you CANNOT become upset, nor can you decide mid stream of a project that you want to become overly involved. Just LET GO… if you have chosen the RIGHT person, you will find they are more successful in achieving the task with better QUALITY in their results. Now, how do you manage it?
2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
The key to managing the "LET GO" delegation of your projects is fairly simple if you have the correct pieces and processes:
1. Engage people that are better skilled than you in the areas you need support in – its ok to be the weakest link (its actually better that way)
2. Establish a collectively accepted GOAL for the project/task – if everyone knows what the end results should be, then there should not be any challenges in the final product
3. Set timelines to check in – as a standby supervisor of this project you are NOT to do the work, but it is FAIR to ask for updates. Set times/dates to get updates and help when needed. (put these in your calendar so you both touch base when appropriate)
4. Be available – make sure that if your team needs help, you are able (and willing) to get involved to the extent that is needed to ONLY move them past that hurdle
5. Get FOCUSED on something more important – you "LET GO" because you needed more time to do all your super important stuff… get to it and let them do the work you asked for!
6. Lastly, make sure that you COMPENSATE your teams – sure, they "get paid to do that" and guess what… they still want a pat on the back, a nice lunch or a small gift card. Grease the wheels of the machine occasionally and you will find it runs much more EFFICIENTLY (and quietly).
Cheers,
Zach
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