Welcome to the How to be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

If you're doing work that's not in your genius zone,

you are robbing the people around you and below you

of doing work in their genius zone.

What happens is, it's the stakes are high, we're panicked, we delegate, and people make mistakes.

Of course they make mistakes, because that's what we do the first time we try something.

And then when people make mistakes, we get frustrated that people make mistakes and we say,

see I can't delegate because nobody can do things as good as I can and the whole

overwhelm cycle starts again. Unfortunately it becomes really hard to

accelerate in the organization when you continue to hang on to old projects.

That's Kelly Thompson, an award-winning leadership coach who's helped thousands of women advance to the rooms where decisions are made.

Today, she's helping us make the leap from do or to

lead her through effective delegation. So you'll learn one why you seem less capable

when you don't delegate. Two, the four mindsets that hinder effective delegation,

and three, how to make sure other folks don't screw up

their delegated tasks.

I'm Pete McKitis.

This is how to be awesome at your job,

and now here's Kelly.

Kelly, welcome back.

Oh I'm so excited to talk to you again.

Me too.

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