“If you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself.”

You’ve heard this phrase a million times over the years, and you might have even said it yourself from time to time.

It’s great advice – if your goal is to limit the success of your company and never grow into your potential. But if you want to see profits increase year after year and become a leader both in your company and in your industry, then you need to learn the art of delegation.

Grow Your Team to Succeed in Business

Many business team leaders and managers became successful by being the hardest worker in the room, by taking on extra work and doing everything to the best of their abilities. It was all about individual effort and standing out from the crowd.

But once you get into a position of leadership, your role changes.

As a leader, it is now all about teamwork.

Your role as a leader is to bring out the best in your team. Their success is your success because you can accomplish a lot more by working together as a team than any of you can accomplish by flying solo. Your company achieves success in proportion to the results that you can deliver as a team.

And the way to grow your team is through delegation.

Empower Your Team Through Delegation

When you delegate more tasks to your team and give them the resources and support they need to accomplish the work, you help them grow. When you empower them to achieve and give them the opportunity to shine, they get better at their job. They maximize their contribution to the team, and that helps everyone else on the team to be more effective too.

Delegating feels counterintuitive at first.

Any time someone trips up or falls five minutes behind schedule, you will feel tempted to take over and do the heavy lifting yourself.

But you must resist that temptation.

When you give in and do their work for them, you rob them of the opportunity to learn and grow. And that actually hurts the team in the long run.

Delegate the work, step back and let them get it done.

If your company is exploring ways to finance future expansion, contact Painted Horse Financial today for more information.