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I’m a relatively new manager and this really stuck out for me “Try to think through what skills someone needs to succeed without you. Teach those things increm

• Osiris 6y ago
  Delegation is extremely important for multiple reasons. 1. I need to have team members I can trust to take things off my plate when things get busy. 2. I want to help my team members grow their technical skills and they can only do that when given difficult tasks that push them outside their comfort zone. I keep reminding myself that if I took a specific task, I may be able to get it done faster, but when I add up all the tasks that I delegated, there's no way I could get that all done faster than spreading it out. I find my role is mostly about keeping team members unblocked and productive.
• gherkinnn 6y ago
  > I quickly saw my team wasn’t performing at my level At first I thought the same. But I then came to realise that people work differently, are motivated by different factors, are blocked by something not visible to me, etc. And once all those factors where accounted for, I saw that the delegated tasks were done better than could have hoped to do. Sometimes absolutely so, sometimes given time constraints. Incredibly rewarding.