Advantages of Delegation

As we just saw, how poor delegation reduces efficiency of people and hampers effective performance of tasks, like wise the right kind of delegation can help entrepreneurs meet success, their goals and business demands faster. Thus success comes to those who can delegate effectively and efficiently. A judicious mix of Control and Delegation ensures success. There is no clear cut formula which tells you that delegating 75% of the tasks would ensure success. As an entrepreneur you have to take a call based on the circumstances and your comfort level. There are entrepreneurs who are absolutely hands-on and there are those who are completely hands-off. You need to decide for yourself the comfort zone where you are most effective by delegating responsibilities and tasks.

The Process of Effective Delegation

Some positive aspects of delegation include:

•  Higher efficiency: One can not do everything oneself. Any enterprise is a team effort. Entrepreneur must define responsibilities and accountability of each member of the team very clearly. As an entrepreneur you must set the expectations straight – your expectations from the employee and vice-versa. Too much control and lack of empowerment of team-members result in sub-optimal decisions, delay in work, and cost over runs. With good reporting systems in place, empowerment of your employees increases their efficiency and skill level.
•  Increased motivation: With empowerment and responsibility comes motivation in the employee to perform better. He feels motivated to accomplish his task in the best possible manner. If he is not given freedom to perform his task the way he wants to then he gets de-motivated and is not able to demonstrate his full capabilities. It is observed that an empowered employee goes out of his defined role to benefit the organization.
•  Improvement in skills: Unless you trust and impose faith in the capabilities of your team you won’t be able to take best out of them. An empowered employee is a continuous learner. He learns new things to discharge his duties more effectively. He upgrades himself without any formal training and inputs from the organization.
•  Better distribution of work through the group: Once responsibilities are defined and tasks assigned to respective stakeholders there is no confusion or doubt left in the system. Delegation brings more clarity and visibility in everybody’s mind regarding their goals and the tasks to achieve these goals. With better distribution of work the speed of work also increases tremendously.