Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

And today, we're going to turn you into a master delegator, even if you're not technically a people leader.

So if you have more on your plate than you know what to do with most days, then hang with me for 10 minutes.

And let's talk tips on delegating with grace.

When I was a kid, I was really awesome at a lot of stuff.

I was better at washing dishes than my brother who was always breaking them.

I was better at vacuuming than my mom who was always tripping over the cord.

I know I was great at these things because they would always tell me so.

And then I'd do all the

dishwashing and the vacuuming. Okay, I may just now be realizing that I was played as a kid.

Was there a degree of manipulation in their compliments? Clearly yes, but they weren't wrong.

Actually was really good at those things.

And my doing them kind of made sense.

It freed up my brother, who was a total schmoozer, to go out and land us free swag.

And my mom, who was kind of a chef, was always able to keep brownies in the oven, which kept my friends coming over.

We were each doing the things that we

did best, and our family was better for it. It's funny, today in my business, I teach a workshop on

delegation, and I am just now realizing how much of what I teach is grounded in the quirky ways of my

family. It may sound a little shady in the retailing, but really

my mom and brother were laying the groundwork for what I now understand about delegation.

Often, we associate delegation with the idea of dumping the grunt work on a subordinate. But I want to

propose it's something much more like what my mom and my brother did.

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