Learn to Delegate to Fix Your Crammed Life and Unlock Unlimited Power
You can have all the time in the world to come up with different ideas. An idea that will soon become a project. Each project takes up so much time and effort to build. Like any other machine, a project needs gears and internal parts to run. To make a project effectively, you need a helping hand. You need to outsource resources.
Delegation is the process of handing chunks of tasks to specific people with that particular skill.
In this article, we will talk about a skill that every entrepreneur or start-up needs. One of the most important assets that every entrepreneur has is delegation.
How To Delegate Your Work
All of us are thinking about a new project. Be it, creating a new mobile app, investing in real estate, or even starting up a new physical store. However, whatever project you will be doing will require time and effort to bring the project to life.
Me and my good friend “Nick” are working on this new game called “Eugene Houdin” that we will be releasing in the next few months.
Creating a new game requires a lot of artwork. The problem that we have is doing with the animation. We don’t know how to animate.
Nick has done animation before but, he is not in the position to do all the artwork for this game. We agreed that we need someone to do the animation to help this project come to fruition. That is how we learned to delegate.
Regardless of how powerful your tools might be, you can’t take on all the tasks yourself. You can’t physically do everything for the project. You don’t have all the skills needed.
Learn to delegate by taking on a project which requires delegation
As a result, you are required to outsource someone to do the job, and this is how you learn to delegate. Not by consciously setting time aside to practice delegation, but taking on a project which requires delegation.
So, how to delegate effectively?
We found an animator we communicate with them through e-mail. When we send e-mail, we give our best to explain the instructions in step-by-step detail. By explaining things in simple terms with lots of detail, the expectations will be met, at the same time they will build a clear vision of product.
Not all the focus is on giving instructions in detail. Most of the time, you require creativity and out of the box ideas from the people you work with. We leave space in the e-mails for suggestions where the people whom I work with can spark up their creativity. We give verbal cues like “maybe we can do this..” or “Here is the problem, you can be creative about this..”.
Creativity thrives with freedom.
Creative people need more freedom to come with their ideas. Sometimes, if you specify a task step by step in too much detail, it can kill creativity, we call that micromanaging, not delegation. This is a balancing act.
Time is a scarce resource that we all have. You don’t have enough time to do all the tasks in a large project, that is why we delegate. You need to invest with someone willing to exchange their time to work with you, find people who are skilled and passionate about your cause.
If you have a new project upcoming, we suggest you delegate.
You need a team to take that project into life.
