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Hard Working Entrepreneurs– Are Your Staff Efficient?

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Article Overview: Are you working very hard but your staff seem to be very inefficient and are holding you back? Maybe the problem is with you and you don’t delegate properly?

Hard Working Entrepreneurs– Are Your Staff Efficient?

Do you hear yourself saying:
* If only I had all the facts
* Every one wants a decision from me
* Why don’t my staff do what I want them to?
* What are my staff doing?
* If only I had more time

You could be suffering from poor delegation:
* Are your standards so high only you can reach them?
* Do you constantly interfere with your staff’s work?
* Can’t make large decisions because of the small things that need doing?
* Do you have to do everything yourself?
* Do you need to know all the minor details?
* Feel you mustn’t lose control of the situation?

Poor Delegation - common symptoms:
* Constantly chasing staff for information
* Constantly checking up on staff
* You find the work of your subordinates more comfortable.
* Poor staff morale
* High stress rate
* Work overload

The poor delegater is the person who is uncomfortable, either because they are more comfortable working at a level lower or they do not like to lose control of any part of a decision. This trait is caused by insecurity and is a common symptom with newly promoted people or people that have been promoted above their comfort level. Of course it could be because they are not very proficient, but let’s just check if you are delegating properly.

Poor Delegation - Solutions
* Be confident in your subordinates’ work and let them know this.
* Review PROGRESS – this means only look at progress from one review to another. Don’t place the reviews too close together. Set your staff reasonable time scales and achievements required and a mechanism for reporting upon this. Then leave them to do their work.
* Look at the big picture, that is your role. Trust your staff to do the smaller things that make up the solution.
* Beware of the “upward bounce” - staff delegating to you – you are in charge remember.
* Encourage your staff bring you problems AND their proposed solutions. This makes them feel empowered, valued and often brings alternative solutions. Of course you need to act on them as well or give reasons as to why they would not work as well.

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Article Tags: alternative solutions, big picture, bounce, decisions, delegation, insecurity, minor details, proposed solutions, staff morale, stress rate, subordinates, time scales



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