Thursday, 14 October 2021

Letting go


If you want performance from your team, learn to let go.

Letting go is hard to do because we often want things to be done in a very specific way. "Our way". We can't help looking over the shoulders of our teams to make sure they are getting it "right". Sometimes we assign the most crucial bit to ourselves to make sure no one else screws it up. We delegate the less important tasks to our team. If we keep doing this, our teams will never learn, feel empowered or feel trusted. Sometimes just... let it go. Trust your team. 

This and other tips in my book Every Employee an Entrepreneur: 

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