Business Owner Breakthrough Podcast

The importance of delegation to your success with Michael Reddy

June 01, 2021 Pete Mohr Season 1 Episode 2
Business Owner Breakthrough Podcast
The importance of delegation to your success with Michael Reddy
Show Notes Transcript

Michael Reddy joins me to discuss the art of delegation. Micheal was one of my coaches along the way and always has great wisdom to share. So many leaders get stuck in the weeds of doing everything. There comes a time when you want your freedom back. 

Proper Delegation will help you get there!

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from our discussion in this episode:

  • Stay in your area of genius, and let others do the rest
  • Learn how to delegate properly by using a system to delegate
  • Patience is key to better delegation
  • The levels of delegation
  • Delegation elevates your team

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SPEAKERS

Michael Reddy, Pete Mohr

 

Michael Reddy  00:00

If you've got stuff that like sitting on your desk, or wherever your desk is, whether it's your computer, your desk, or whatever it might be, and you're holding on to it, because you don't know how to do it. Well, if you don't know how to do it, you're not the person to be doing it. So you can spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to do it. Or you can just go find someone that already knows how to do it and let them take it on. And so it's really about what are the things that you know how to do that you're good at. That's what you are who for your own those things? Yeah, and those other ones that you're questioning how go find somebody else that already knows, go get the expert, like, don't try and reinvent the wheel.

 

Pete Mohr  00:39

Hey, it's Pete, and welcome to the simplifying entrepreneurship podcast, this series designed to help you change your entrepreneurial worries and wants into wins by providing the tips and tools that will help you cut through the chaos and create clarity for your business and entrepreneurial life. Always remember that you lead your business, it shouldn't lead you. And this week, I'm talking to one of my coaches, Michael ready for my time and Strategic Coach. He is a wealth of knowledge has run all sorts of different businesses and coached many, many leaders through change. And through a variety of different things. Today, we are going to talk all about the power of delegation, what it means the structure of delegating the challenges of delegating, and the levels of delegating. So, so much to be learned here for Michael, in this conversation. We'll dig right into it and see you on the other side. Hey, Michael, it's great to see you again.

 

Michael Reddy  01:41

It's great to be here with you. Thanks for inviting me onto your podcast. Yeah,

 

Pete Mohr  01:45

it's just wonderful to have you, you know, a big topic today, all around delegation, and it's something all entrepreneurs come to these different areas of their business in their career

 

Michael Reddy  01:57

where they have to let things go. I thought it'd be great topic to get into today. And always appreciate your wisdom on this kind of stuff. delegation is vital. Unless you know how to delegate, you can't grow your business, because there's a limit to how many hours are in a day. And there's a limit to how much you can do. And also, when you're doing all of it was over half of the you're doing really poorly. So yeah, delegation is a key to being successful in my mind.

 

Pete Mohr  02:24

Yeah, I agree. I like what you said there, too, about, there's only you know, so many hours in the day. And I think Dean Jackson has sort of a line in that idea. That's like, you can't buy more hours in a day. And that's such an important piece here is our listeners, mostly our leaders and entrepreneurs. And it's like, we get tied up with time constraints. And we want to have more, but you can't buy more. Right? So right. That's where the delegation piece really comes in.

 

Michael Reddy  02:52

I think the other thing too, about ours is just every year whatever for you is the right balance. Entrepreneurs go great. I'm if I'm awake for 18 hours, I can work for 15 of them. Well, you're not gonna be very productive. Awesome. Exactly. It's really how many productive work hours do I have? And how many hours do I have for regenerating and taking care of myself and doing all the things other things I say are important, because we got into being an entrepreneur running our own business, for it to serve us so we can do things that we want to do. And if we don't know how to delegate, the business will consume you. He won't have time for anything else.

 

Pete Mohr  03:31

Boy, tell me, I think, you know, there's so many people that I've talked to that have felt that way and their entrepreneurial careers, what are some of the things that you would guide people into starting to delegate? There's a lot of people out there that just refuse or don't know how to let things go? What are your thoughts on that?

 

Michael Reddy  03:49

Well, I think the first thing is to probably look at things that you don't enjoy doing, or you know, you don't do well, those are probably the first things to delegate away. If you can't, yeah. And if you don't have someone on your team, there's all sorts of opportunities now for virtual assistants and virtual people, Upwork and all these different companies that you can delegate to people that are really good at doing the thing that you don't do well. I think also when delegating, you've got to be patient, the first time you delegate something to someone, they will not do it as well as you and they won't do it as quickly as you would do. So you fall into the trap of, well, it'll just be faster if I do it myself. Yeah, maybe this one time. But if you look at it doing another 50 times, if you train someone and within five times of them doing it, they're doing it faster than you. And guess what, you've just freed up a huge amount of your time. So it's having some patience and letting the people you delegate to learn, you know, they're not going to get a perfect.

 

Pete Mohr  04:46

I like the idea of patience. And I think that's one of the things that's lacking for a lot of entrepreneurs too, right? We tend to want to just kind of get things done. There's a certain mindset around that that you just kind of have to Give yourself some time to make this happen. Because in the long term, it's going to be actually a better thing. Yeah. And the other reason you've got to give some time to let it happen is if you're just starting to delegate, you're not very good at it. Yeah, that's a great point.

 

Michael Reddy  05:13

So not only are the people you're delegating to, they have to get up to speed, you're probably not going to be hitting out of the park being like, excellent at being able to delegate because you're not used to it. So you've got to give yourself time to do it better as well. Yeah. How do I delegate? Well, is a good thing to look at.

 

Pete Mohr  05:30

And what would you suggest there for somebody who's not used to delegating? Like what would be a tip or two that you could sort of share with us here on somebody who's starting into that? What can you do to delegate better?

 

Michael Reddy  05:40

I think one of the key things to do to delegate better is, is know that it's going to take some time. And I would sit down with a person be clear on what you're delegating, why you're delegating it. What's the purpose? Why is it important? And then to write out the criteria of this is what is this this successful delegation will look like? Yeah, this is how the clients are going to feel this is how my customers are going to feel when they come into my into the store. This is what the end output looks like. And take time to show them how to do it and answer their questions. Yeah, and that's the start. Yeah, yeah, we're just just have clarity of communication about what you want, and how it gets done. Don't just walk by, dump it in their hands and assume that they know what to do.

 

Pete Mohr  06:22

Yeah, start with laying it out with the purpose in mind. Right? Yeah, for them, so that they can see the benefit of what it is. I like that I like that. What sort of things do you find when you're working with and coaching entrepreneurs through are some of the things some of the challenges that they have delegated? And what are some of the harder things that you're finding that people just really don't want to delegate?

 

Michael Reddy  06:45

Well, they may not want to delegate things that are a bit more personal to them are financial, yeah. Because they want to sort of keep a close to the chest. And that's understandable. But So start with the easy stuff, things that aren't like that. And then you build trust with someone over a period of time. And you can start to release more of those other things where they can see more about you or more about the business. I think that's that's one of them. And I think everything around delegating, and this is something that I was guilty of when I started delegating is that I would leave it on my desk until the last possible moment when it had to get done because I've been ignoring it. And then I delegated someone, and they had no time to do it properly. Because I'm the guy that kept the chew on, right. Yeah. Delegate early.

 

Pete Mohr  07:28

Yeah, you're the bottleneck, you could have delegated that earlier and made it happen. And it would have been done by the time you even got to looking at it, right? Yeah, I

 

Michael Reddy  07:36

call it delegating in the flavor of being a Canada Goose. So Canada, US eats a whole lot of grass, the whole lot comes out the back end. Yeah. And so I would tend to fly in like a Canada Goose leave a whole bunch of messes on people's desks to delegate and fly out assuming everything's gonna be lovely. Wasn't didn't work out that way.

 

Pete Mohr  07:58

Yeah, that's great. So through all of those transactions and times that you did that, how did you refine that process so that you became a better delegator? through your years of experience?

 

Michael Reddy  08:11

Well, one of the things that I've learned through the Strategic Coach is there's different levels of delegation. And that to me was a key thing to get. Yeah, one of them is, I'm going to delegate this to you, but I want you to go away, think about it. And come back to me before you take any action at all, because I want to talk about what you're going to do. Another is, I'm going to delegate this to you be clear about what I want. And I want you to report back weekly or daily or whatever, how it's going until it's completed. The next level was I'm gonna delegate it to you tell me when it's done. And the fourth is, I'm going to delegate this to you and I never want to see this thing again. You just take care of it. ongoingly every time it shows up. And I think that getting clarity on what kind of delegation, then it gives real clarity on the outcome and certainty about what's going to happen.

 

Pete Mohr  08:57

Yeah, I like that the parameters around the different levels of delegation. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's, that's an awesome way to look at things and starting with where they have a minor amount and involvement right up to where they own the whole project.

 

Michael Reddy  09:13

Exactly. That's cool. The other thing I've learned is, is when delegate to people, you need to be available to them be available for support guidance, just answering a question. So you're not sort of giving it to them, and then they're sinking or swimming. Yeah, help them know, help them be successful. Because the more you can make them successful, the more successful you'll be.

 

Pete Mohr  09:34

Yeah, I love that. Love that. I know, Dan, and Benjamin hardy just wrote a book recently called who not how, and essentially, that was sort of all around this idea too, of delegating, right. You don't need to know how to do it. You just need to know who can help you get through that.

 

Michael Reddy  09:49

Yeah. Well, I love that book, the concept of who not how it is one of Dan's. He has a lot of brilliant concepts. That one is going to be one of the top five and what I love But it is that if you've got stuff that like sitting on your desk, or wherever your desk is, whether it's your computer, your desk, or whatever it might be, and you're holding on to it, because you don't know how to do it. Well, if you don't know how to do it, you're not the person to be doing. So you could spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to do it. Or you can just go find someone that already knows how to do it and let them take it on. And so it's really about what are the things that you know how to do that you're good at? That's what you are who for your own those things? Yeah, and those other ones that you're questioning how go find somebody else that already knows, go get the expert, like, don't try and reinvent the wheel.

 

Pete Mohr  10:36

I like that, as you were saying, sort of laying around in your desk and all that sort of stuff. I was thinking, you could use that for your email inbox to write anywhere very same sort of way. It's like if stuff sitting in your email inbox, you just haven't gotten to it yet. It's probably because you need to delegate it.

 

Michael Reddy  10:53

You're not good at it. You're procrastinating yet, for some reason. Yeah. Is in your inbox. You know, for me, it's it's on my Trello over and over again, every week, when I look at it, it's still there. Well, there's a reason there. The reason is, I'm not the person to be doing it the first place.

 

Pete Mohr  11:08

Right? I agree. I agree. I mean, you and I both use Trello. It's a great tool. And you know, from those perspectives, you kind of look at that. And the nice thing about using some of those tools is that it Prime's the pump for delegation, right? When you have those tools, and you see it's in your face that kind of stuffs in your face. It's like, Okay, well, I haven't got to this. So now, I need to make that sort of decision to go ahead and delegate it and move it ahead. Because we become our own bottlenecks.

 

Michael Reddy  11:34

You know, the other great thing about delegating Well, is it builds the strength of your team. Yeah. It lets them rise up to be the best that they can. Yeah, one of the things that I love doing is going to my team, and going okay, so you see all the things that I do. What do I do that think that you think you could take off my plate? And with training and some time, you'd be able to do it as good as or better than me? What do you want to take off of my desk? Like that? And then I give it to ya give them the opportunity, right? Yeah, they could say, well, I could do that, or good or that I'm going to give it to you. Nice. That's a great way to start to free up stuff. It's amazing what people are willing to if you give them the option, they go, Yeah, I'd love to do that. I go great, because I hate it. That's why I still have it.

 

Pete Mohr  12:18

Absolutely. Yeah, that's great. Well, I appreciate all this chat on delegation today. I think it's just a wonderful conversation. And you know, what I'd like to do here, Michael, before we sort of wrap up is to let everybody know how to get ahold of you. If they want to reach out to tell them about how they can find Mike already.

 

Michael Reddy  12:38

The easiest way to find me is send me an email, which is Michael at Red vest corp.com. So har EDV St. corp.com. Awesome. Awesome. Well, thanks

 

Pete Mohr  12:52

so much. And I appreciate you spending some time with us here today talking all about delegation, and really look forward to having another chat with the real soon, Michael, my pleasure. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. I always enjoy my conversations with Michael and so happy that he's agreed to do another couple of episodes with us in the near future. So thanks for spending some time with me today here on the simplifying entrepreneurship podcast. Think about how you can apply today's simplifying entrepreneurship topic of delegation. What can you delegate What can you start right after you finish listening here so that you can advance your business and have an even better entrepreneurial life? If you liked the podcast, share it with your friends, invite them to listen, and you know, hit the hit the little like, do all that great stuff. We really appreciate it. And for more information on my entrepreneurial programs, visit more dot coach that's mo hr.co a CH more coach, and until next time, make it a great day.

 

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