4 More Reasons You Should Be Delegating Your Tasks!

Behind the suc­cess of per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity is your abil­ity to del­e­gate tasks out.  They can be any­one, such as your col­leagues, cus­tomer or even your bosses (sur­prised?).  Del­e­ga­tion allows you to focus on your strengths.  When you are not del­e­gat­ing, you may be doing work that may be counter-productive as you step into a steep learn­ing curve or your resis­tance to start mak­ing progress in the task.  When you feel unhappy work­ing on the tasks, you become unwill­ing to pick up new things and this becomes the real show-stopper for any progression!

1. Cap­i­tal­ize your strengths! – By del­e­gat­ing your tasks out.  Those man­date, bor­ing and those that you feel unhappy about, you get to focus on those tasks that are strate­gic, excit­ing and you feel a sense of achieve­ment doing it.  Why?  You are actu­ally work­ing on things that cap­i­tal­ize on your strengths!  When you are cap­i­tal­iz­ing on your strength, you feel good as you learn faster and com­plete work faster.  This cre­ates a “always win­ning” feel­ing!  The more you win, the more you likely to be pro­duc­tive doing it!
2. You feel great! – Let’s be hon­est with each other, nobody will be happy work­ing on some­thing that they dis­like.  When some­thing that you dis­like is being del­e­gated out (espe­cially those that can dragged for days), you would not feel bore down think­ing that a pend­ing (bor­ing) task is your to-do list.  How­ever, given that you had del­e­gated out the bor­ing tasks (those that you feel bor­ing work­ing at), now you are left with tasks that you like to do, and you will feel great with these tasks!
3. Boosts team com­mu­ni­ca­tion! – This is the time to com­mu­ni­cate with your col­leagues.  Find out what they are doing AND what they are doing best. Find out if they like to work on some­thing else or alter­na­tive work options instead of what they are cur­rently too.  You be sur­prised!  They may be your answer to your prob­lems.  Why?  They may want to take on those tasks that you are not keen work­ing on but they are unsure how to approach you.  They may want to have a share of your work to boost their career pro­file!  Fur­ther­more, through this com­mu­ni­ca­tion, you get to know your col­leagues and they get to know you bet­ter too!
4. You are not the right per­son to do it – Some­times, you may not be the right author­ity to per­form the assigned task.  You may not be in the right depart­ment to han­dle the task too.  The prob­lem here is you do not know how to say “no” and pass on to some­one else.  You blindly accept the task and han­dle it alone.  That is not the cor­rect way to approach the task.  Find out if you should be doing it in the first place.  Hand it to some­one that has the capa­bil­ity to han­dle it or the right posi­tion to han­dle it.

With all these rea­sons (and those men­tioned in Achieve Per­sonal Pro­duc­tiv­ity Through Del­e­ga­tion!), it is really ben­e­fi­cial to start del­e­gat­ing tasks to your col­leagues.  It will be unwise to put a bound­ary on del­e­ga­tion.  You never know how much ben­e­fit you can reap off through del­e­ga­tion. Keep options opened if tasks are assigned to you.  You will be sur­prise that your col­leagues may want to have a share of your work to help them boost their career pro­file.  You never know too! J

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