Delegate the work one does not enjoy doing or do not have time for. Find an individual within ones team or organization that enjoys this specific work and delegate the work to them. Delegation means one assists the other person with getting the work done. They learn from you, get your time and expertise and in the future are able to do the work on their own. Delegation may include an investment cycle in the person being delegated to; as the person delegating and the one with the expertise, you may have to invest time in transferring the necessary skills to the person being delegated to. If you would like to learn more about delegation read the article Leigh Harrison, a Career Builder coach and expert, wrote on delegation...
What is delegation?
Delegation is when one is able to give work to another who does enjoy doing that work, but you stay responsible for getting the job done on time. Visit the Career Builder Coaching page for more...
Career Builder included two free case studies and a coaching session on delegation:
When leaving an organization close all the gaps! This means when you walk out the door there are people within the organization that can comfortably take over all the work you have done. You have been continuously delegating and growing the careers of those around. This leaves a very positive feeling about you in the organization and you will always be welcome back!
Setting your own Deadlines or Compelling events
Why create compelling events for myself?
Successful company builders know that people can and should be stretched. Unre Visagie built many successful companies. He stretches the people that work with him in building these companies; people discover depths within them they never knew they had. The knowledge successful company builders have is to know when to stop expecting more and allow that specific growth curve to play itself out. The trick is that anyone wanting to grow their careers can apply this same “pressure” to building their own successful careers. Have a career builder attitude! Read more on setting deadlines or Compelling events for yourself...
How would one go about setting your own deadlines?
Career Builder learned from working with many individual careers. A good place to begin is to grow a win-win mindset! When one has a win-win mindset growth happens almost on autopilot. Ones environment becomes electric and more people become involved in achieving the goals you set for yourself. Read more on setting deadlines or Compelling events for yourself...
Facilitate and manage a meeting
Facilitate and manage a meeting - Table of Content
Grow the production arena with information gained by asking questions like WHAT? HOW?
One could shrink ones production arena with "attack" statements / questions like WHO and WHY?
Learn how to constructively "small talk".
Thank you to Ken Smith for the above insights!
Making career choices based on what is unknown is always a source of uncertainty for most. We fear that which we do not know. Imagine looking down a very dark tunnel running straight down into the earth. You are expected to jump into this hole, you expect this of yourself or others expect this of you. To you this hole looks like it just goes down forever, a never ending drop into a very deep abyss…
