How to Delegate Effectively: 5 Steps to Let Go of Control and Start Doing More

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If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right?

The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses:

The outcome won’t be as good.

It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.

I don’t have anyone with the right skills.

No one in the team wants to do it anyway.

There’s this itch to jump and solve every problem yourself.

• Got a presentation — no one can do it better than me.
• Got a production issue — it ain’t getting fixed if I am not involved.
• Got a client call — I need to seal this deal.
• Got a critical feature release — I better do it myself.

The risk of not getting it right is way too high.

“Picture this. I am your supervisor, and I walk over to you with pencil in hand and tell you to take it. You reach for the pencil, but I won’t let go. So I say, ‘What…