Delegating, a tool for leadership success

Delegating, a tool for leadership success

One tool that is handy for any leader to possess in other to succeed in leadership is the ability to delegate duties effectively.

Delegation is the act of delegating which means to authorize a person or group of people to act as a representative for you. This is empowering someone to do part of your job for effective result.  Some leaders do not know how to delegate or rather do not have the skills and attitude of delegating duties, the reason for this is that some leaders think what makes them relevant is the work they do and when given to someone else to do, they feel their relevance is being taking away, while others love the feel of being in control of everything, whenever they are not in control, they think the work is not moving well, everybody around is lazy etc.

Delegation is important if any leader will love to achieve more in reach and in scope. It is a defective leadership attitude if you do not know how to delegate. People will not grow under you and this is not good as a leader.

In other to properly delegate, you must first define the scope of the duty/responsibility to be done, set the boundaries with clarity and then give the delegate certain level of authority and independence to be able to perform the task. Let them make their mistakes and learn to grow.

This is one tool that leaders can use in other to achieve more for less

To your success!

Felix Smith Aigbonohan

Peak performance coach  

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