Delegation Vs. Relegation – What Are You Doing?
When we are building high performance teams it’s not only important to set expectation for performance, it’s also important to be able to properly delegate certain assignments to your staff. Many entrepreneurs mistake relegation (the act of giving a task for action) with delegation (the assignment of responsibility or authority to another person). Why is this even important? Initially, if you are serious about building high performance teams, you want to have the people on your team take ownership for the assignments that they are given. When we relegate those duties to people they just do what they are told and that’s it. With delegation, you can give the assignment
Your business- Own it and Win
As someone who owns a business you are most likely a person who goes against the grain. You also probably possess a can-do attitude and a desire to win. At time however you fail to recognize the sometimes fine line between doing too much and not enough. A great example of when business owners don’t do enough is in the area of web marketing. Take a look at the stats in this article: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/12/small-business-don%E2%80%99t-get-it%E2%80%93still-failing-to-invest-in-search-marketing.html We as business owners, unless our business is technical in nature don’t want to deal with anything that seems technical. Search marketing is a great example as soon as someone starts to explain it to us,
Business done easy? Be careful what you ask for.
One thing that I hear when I spend time with new entrepreneurs is a desire to have their business plans, processes and structure done with little work on their part. There is one big reason for this that I will explain. Before I get into that, I will say that you are setting yourself up for disaster by letting someone do work for you without any involvement from you the business owner. I was inspired to write about this from spending a week in Lake Tahoe with an entrepreneur group called CEO Space. I don’t know how many times I heard the phrase, ‘I don’t know, I just want someone
