How to Delegate For Maximum Results

How to Delegate for Maximum Results

by Tom Borg c.2010

In his book Pizza Tiger, Tom Monahagn of Dominoes Pizza, confessed that he loved to make pizzas. He was good at it. He could knead and flip the pizza dough and make it just right. When he was just starting out, with just one or two stores, he realized that if he was going to really grow his pizza empire he was going to have stop making pizzas and start working on expanding the business. That meant hiring the right people and teaching them how to do what he did so well.


Michael Gerber the small business guru calls this being able to
“Stop working in the business and to start working on the business”.

Let’s face it, most business owners have a hard time with delegation. Part of the reason is, over the years they have had to do a lot of different things to make their business successful, and often they enjoyed doing many of those different things.

Some of the typical excuses why small business owners do not delegate:

1. They don’t feel anyone who works for them can do it “exactly the right way”.
2. They don’t feel secure enough to give the authority to others
3. They don’t trust the people that work for them to do the job effectively
4. They will only delegate small inconsequential responsibilities

Some of the benefits for delegating are:

1. It gets the job done.
2. It can grow your people
3. It will allow your people to feel involved
4. Better and greater productivity.

A good way to look at this idea of delegating is to look at the game of baseball. The manager can’t play all nine positions of the team. Even if he could play all nine positions he couldn’t do them all at the same time. If he is going to do a truly effective job of overseeing and really maximizing the talent and potential of his players he has got to be the manager not one of the players.

Here are some basics on delegating a job effectively.
1. Pick the person you want to delegate to
2. Plan out how you will delegate the job
3. Explain to the person:
a. What you want him/her to do.
b. What you don’t want him/her to do.
c. How well you want it done.
d. When you want it done by.
4. Discuss with them how they plan to do it and answer any questions they may
have.
5. Let them do the job.
So in summary, as Tom Monahagn learned to do, start delegating the right things to the right people and watch your business grow.