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

1. You get work done faster than what yourself can – The first benefit of delegation, is things will move faster than you would when you do it alone.  Things will be completed faster as you distribute tasks and allow them to run concurrent to what you are doing.
2. You need not work on task that you find boring or unhappy handling it – The second benefit of delegation!  The boring mandate tasks are assigned to someone to do it.  You may not like the tasks assigned to you but somebody may like it.  You will be surprised that your colleague actually loves the printing of the sales documents or preparing the travel documents for you.  It is strange but it is true.  With something that is boring to you (where you will be unproductive doing something you do not like) being delegated out, now, you can focus on things that can keep you happy thus bringing up your morale and productivity.
3. You can focus on things that are strategic – When the boring and mandate tasks (in your perspective) are assigned to colleagues who love doing it, you are not free to focus on the things that are important to you.  Now, you have more time to meet strategic clients, business development, build relationship or attend to your customer’s needs!
4. You may uncover things that you may have missed out if you were to perform the task alone – Through delegation, with someone who is passionate about the delegated task, he may be able to uncover loop holes to the task and may manage the task better than you if you were to be doing it alone.

A word of caution, delegation may seem to be the choice for personal productivity.  It works really well when the task delegated fits directly with the prospective colleague.  However, most of the time, it is not the case.  Chances are likely that you will face resistance from the colleague as he will be taking on more responsibilities.

Another point that you should be careful is the abuse of delegation.  Delegation is not about shifting responsibilities.  It is to allow you to be free of work that is counter-productive to your overall productivity.  You will still need to hold responsibility of the output delivered from the delegate colleague.  If you have the mentality that delegation is shifting responsibilities (and put blame on others when they cannot deliver), unfortunately, this is the incorrect way to view delegation.

We hope you can see the benefits of delegation in relation with personal productivity.  A good fit in the delegated task is the key component to delegation.  With much boring, unhappy, mandate, etc type of tasks been freed up, now you can work on more meaningful and important tasks that will greatly enhance your personal productivity!