Time Wasters - Delegation

Small business operators often have everything to do, and often do not have the luxury of delegating tasks to others.

Many have a business to run, by themselves.

No-one else can do it for us.

It is our baby! But there is still a lot of work that could be done by others that is often not delegated properly or at all.

Think about the various tasks that you do…

Make a complete and accurate list of all the various things you get up to in a “normal” day.

And then ask yourself…

What tasks can you effectively delegate?

If a job was going to take 100 hours to do, and you took 2 hours to train someone to do it, and for some reason they only do half the job, you still have saved around 48 hours!

The person who constantly thinks “If you want a job done properly, you do it yourself” is probably a very overworked person.

If you can’t delegate (for any reason) then you must set priorities for each day (and maybe even each hour of the day) and get the important things done first!

(This is the fifth post in the “Major Time Wasters” series)