Entrepreneurs: Why Delegating Isn’t Working For You

As small business owners we are constantly told that we need to be delegating and outsourcing in order t o maximize our time, results, income and business growth. So why does it often seem so hard to successfully delegate tasks in your business and to find competent help that can really get things done to your standard? 

It is this struggle that has small business owners believing that the only solution is to do everything themselves until we can successful clone ourselves so that everything is done to our standards. However, while you may be able to make quite a good living this way you know that you will never be able to take your venture to its full potential or actually create a real business that can operate without your daily involvement and really begin to build tangible value.

We are told that providing we can find team members who can do things at least 80% as well as we can that we have to delegate, but sometimes that missing 20% can seem like a big difference and simply just doesn’t cut it. This leads to frustration, often ultimately just giving up on hiring altogether and just giving up on the big dreams that were once such an inspiration. Though it doesn’t have to be this way.

The root problem is really that many entrepreneurs are not effectively delegating. Simply handing off your responsibilities and tasks and expecting things to be accomplished the way you would do them is abdication, not delegation. In contrast, if you take the time to create systems for everything in your business you are able to easily, effectively delegate while maintaining the quality and speed that your business demands to remain a competitive force in your industry.

Systematizing your business brings many benefits. One of the most important to point out when it comes to delegation is that with solid systems you no longer have to worry about hiring extremely expensive experts or risk putting your organization in the hands of only a few key staff members who control your company’s future and could hold you ransom or abdicate and leave your operation in chaos at any time. Instead, you are able to focus on hiring more cost effectively and putting motivated and trainable individuals to work with your systems.

Taking the extra minutes to document processes and create systems for everything you do in your business the first time around means that next time something needs to be done you already have a system for it and it can immediately delegated. You will find that this works for absolutely everything that needs to be done in the course of your business and that you can even create systems for those things that you believe makes you unique, in effect enabling you to mold those clones you have been dreaming of.

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