S2 E77 Collaboration Not Delegation (part 2)

For Love of Team™ | Winston Faircloth

Did you start your business to keep track of the bookkeeping? Or to become a marketing expert? Or write all the copy? Or maybe you looked forward to taking care of the mail and holding meetings?

Probably not.

If I had to guess, I’d say that you started your business because you were passionate about providing a product or service that you love.

But then you discovered that running a business is so much more than just fulfilling the services you offer. And now you may be feeling stuck. You’d like to do more, serve more, make a bigger impact but you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel running faster and faster without getting anywhere.

In this episode, you’ll get:

• Why delegation doesn’t work
• How changing your perspective to collaboration gives you better results
• 4 steps to identifying collaboration opportunities in your business
• Bonus: A copy of the exact Google spreadsheet I use for the exercise we’ll go through together on the podcast
• Why grading your activity is critical to collaboration
• The outsourcing option that gets you the biggest ROI

And, you’ll hear how to determine what holding on to these tasks is costing you and how you can change it.

When you grade your activities, here are the ratings you’ll use:

N - NOVICE. These are tasks you don’t do well at all. You’d need to research HOW to do this work. It causes you stress, you feel incompetent, it causes stress and conflict. The learning curve is likely steep. You either avoid these or you judge these purely not worth your time.

S - SKILLED. You can get the task done, you’re proficient especially in a pinch, evaluate yourself as adequate. Others could do this task much better and with less effort. These feel repetitive, monotonous. Overall, feels draining and blocks your growth and that of your business.

E - EXCELS. You have great skill at this. Your team, even your business, counts on you to deliver in this area. You perform these tasks better than most others. Yet, it lacks spark or energy for you. While checking the box has some satisfaction, working in this area is not very rewarding to you and doesn’t support your growth. You may even feel trapped or captive to these tasks, keeping you from doing the fun stuff.

G - GIFTED. Of all of the items on your checklist, these are your favs. If we had heart emojis on the tracker, they’d earn the love. You do these exceedingly well and love to do them. These are the tasks that fuel your passion, accelerate your impact and you feel in your flow or in the Zone. Time flies by when you are doing these. In fact, you love this work so much, you’d do it even without pay. Most importantly, you are fascinated by this and always are striving to grow and improve in this area.

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