Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help

leaders go further faster. On today's podcast we'll explore an easy and

effective way to delegate. Well Andy, all leaders eventually come to that point when I guess they have to admit no matter how hard it is that they can't do everything

They know they'll have to delegate some responsibilities if they want their organization to move ahead

Yep, and this really goes back to something we talk about a lot on our leadership podcast,

and that's that for the leader, the ultimate goal, the bull's eye on the target is to only do what

only you can do, which means you've got to quit doing all the things that you shouldn't be doing,

which brings us to our topic today of delegation.

And the other thing that, and we'll get into this a little bit later,

the other thing about delegation because it's not a super exciting word is delegation really when it's done right is really a leadership development strategy and one of the questions that we get so many times from leaders is how do you develop leaders how do you develop leaders and I think they picture a classroom or a

setting or a every Tuesday at 4.30 we you know do something but really when

delegation is done right it really is a leadership strategy because you find out

quickly who are the leaders who are who are the responsible leaders and who can

you trust greater responsibility with so this really is a super important topic.

Yeah, I mean, it is an important topic and yet again and again we see leaders struggle with it.

Why do you think that is?

I think it has to do with just the nature of leadership.

As leaders, three things, we know how we want things done.

We know when we want things done.

And because we are responsible by nature,

the idea of handing off responsibility is not intuitive I think sometimes to leaders

because we feel responsible and we should feel responsible but refusing to hand off responsibility

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