Episode 110: The Difficulty of Delegation

What’s So Challenging About Delegation?

For many professionals, a great area for development is how they delegate work to other people. This challenge shows up in our work with our clients as well - it’s about how we think about what needs to get done in our work and in our lives, and is really about the inside job.

Today we’re exploring the reasons delegation sometimes feels so hard and how self-awareness, self-compassion, and some key mindset shifts can help us to delegate more effectively.

Key takeaways from this episode:

  • What makes delegation such a challenge, even for the most experienced leaders

  • Common reasons we might resist delegating tasks

  • The stories we most often tell ourselves about delegating and the mindset shifts we can use to address them

  • How self-reflection can help us delegate more effectively

Here’s a preview of what we discussed today.

  • The Skill and Will Matrix

  • The Two Stories That Come Up Most Often When It Comes To Delegating as a Leader

  • Why We May Feel Stuck When It Comes To Delegation

  • We May Feel Drawn To Go Back To Our Work Once We Delegate

  • How Our Desire For Control Impacts The Ways We Delegate

  • The Inside Job When It Comes To Delegation

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