We need to talk about delegation

My new book is now available on Amazon. It’s called Deep and Deliberate Delegation: A new art for unleashing talent and winning back time. It was published in January this year and is selling nicely, with all five-star reviews so far!

I wrote the book after a client of mine, the managing director of a long-established architectural practice, asked me to do a seminar on delegation because he felt his senior people were not delegating very well. After that, I noticed that delegation haunts every conversation I have with business people.

They don’t say “delegation”. Instead, they talk about not being able to get the right staff, or hang on to good people, and how, if they want something done right, they have to do it themselves. They complain of not having enough hours in the day. Progress is being blocked and performance is suffering. These are the classic symptoms of ineffective delegation.

I believe ineffective delegation is now reaching pandemic levels in organisational life, and yet it’s not on management’s development radar.

So my mission is to get delegation on that radar by providing daily tips and insights designed to help you unleash talent around you and win back your time, so you can get on with what is really important to you, at work, home and play.

Each week I’ll post four short daily tips and insights that take just two minutes to read, containing a concept, reflection, or a “how to” that you can try out.

They’ll be taken from the book and from the in-house programme I offer business leaders, managers and staff, called “Delegate 4 Results”.

I hope you try them out. I’m confident you’ll find that, soon, amazing things are happening, even if it’s not you doing them.