This is Steve Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Delegation can be like handing off one's life work to the next generation.

Terrifying.

At first, of course, having a next generation seems like a joyous event.

My client is ecstatic.

His schmoopee has announced a pending new arrival to the family,

and he's planning the bedroom. No, no, not just a mere bedroom. Why? A growth studio.

Precious will have a fully dedicated growth studio, a place to succeed, to fail, to become an

entitled member of the next generation, to work. Oh, work. My client wants

to take several months leave from work to spend time with Little Precious. This story is presumably

happening somewhere with a reasonable we just had baby policies, but things in the office still

need to get done. Oh, how to cope.

Well, the answer seems obvious.

Delegate.

You know, just let everyone know what needs to be done and when, and then magically, it will all get done.

There's only one small fly in the ointment.

The very word delegation gives him the night terrors.

He's scared that he picked the wrong people, or the wrong

jobs, or that the world will just grind to a screeching halt while he's gone. But delegation

isn't all or nothing. He can just add one small word before delegation. Trial delegation. If you're

having trouble delegating, you can do trial delegation as well. You don't

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