If you want to be a true businesswoman, you must learn to delegate fearlessly and effectively. If you do not delegate, you really are not a businesswoman, but self-employed. But delegating involves eliminating great mental limitations that we usually have today, especially women.
We want everything to be perfectly done and that's it. We are not calm if we do not make sure that the task is perfectly and quickly executed. Those perfectionisms limit us.
As in everything in business, you have to invest. Doing more homework, better and in less time, requires an investment of time first, and that things are not so perfectly done for a season.
I teach you in this article some keys so that you learn how to delegate effectively, and you can be a true businesswoman.
Invest the time necessary to teach
One of the great reasons why it is not delegated is because it is mistakenly thought that time is wasted, but with that thought we will continue running and putting out fires forever.
Just as you invest money, you need to invest time, and although there is a small initial delay for stopping teaching your collaborators, later on you will end up gaining time that you did not have, thus being able to carry out more actions and gain quality of life.
Communication
For the delegation of work to be really effective, you cannot leave out good communication. If you ignore this premise you can pay it very expensive, both in effectiveness and in time. Explain clearly to your collaborator what you want and how you should do it, without taking anything for granted. Make sure that person has understood your message perfectly.
One of my clients solved this problem very effectively, preparing a dossier with what she expected from her collaborator. When she gives the dossier to a new collaborator, she invites her to ask her anything that she does not understand after reading it.
Show confidence
If you show confidence to your collaborator, you will get more and better results from it. It happens that when we put our best expectations on a person, she usually responds in the best possible way with the aim of showing us that we are not wrong. Normally, you want to give one hundred percent.
However, if we transmit lack of confidence and that we do not expect much from that person, the more likely it will take away the desire to make the slightest effort, because he believes that he will not be valued.
Go from less to more
The best way to delegate with great effectiveness is to start with small and simple tasks, to gradually increase them and add complexity.
By going little by little, it will become easier for everyone. And if there is any difficulty it will be easier to locate at what exact point it occurs.
We learn from mistakes
Nothing happens if your collaborators are wrong. You do too, right? Error is necessary in all learning and is part of your investment in them. Also thanks to different errors that you had not even contemplated, you can discover new and better ways of doing things.
So from now on, stop stressing yourself with possible failures caused by your collaborators, and let their learning flow.
Implement these strategies, start delegating and increase the possibilities for you and your business.
