Delegation that Works at Home and the Office

Delegation is tough when you hold on to expectations for a specific outcome. There is so much more to delegation than just about freeing your time for more productive work. The Dalai Lama believes that compassion is one of the keys to happiness, and happiness leads to more compassion.

How can delegation to all areas of our life, help us lead a happier more fulfilling life? Here we learn that if we focus on compassion, then you have a delegation that works at home and the office.

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Whether you are at the office or at home, delegating will help create a simple life. You can’t do everything yourself. If you did try, your health and ultimate success won’t prosper. To succeed you need help. You need a team to help you reach your goals and to simplify your life.

In the Office

Delegating, when done correctly, shows compassion to others, and it nurtures compassion within the team. Let’s look at the office first. We know that when we delegate correctly we have increased productivity, improved employee engagement, and increased profits. But what does that mean, “delegate correctly”?

The delegation that works includes a leader:

setting clear goals for their team,
nurture creativity,
stop micromanaging,
fostering personal development through compassion

Compassion is the key to igniting full engagement within a team.

Using compassion to foster personal development will allow the leader to uplift the performance of each team member. It will strengthen the team when they can successfully meet targets, and enjoy their own personal fulfillment knowing they helped make that difference. It will show the team member that they are valued and employees that feel valued stay longer.

Setting clear goals with compassion doesn’t mean setting the targets so they are easy to achieve. It means that the goals need to be clearly understood, and measurable. If the employees don’t know how they can work towards the goals then they will get discouraged and disengaged.

Micromanaging stifles creativity. Lack of creativity could limit the success of the company. Leaders can have their team submit weekly reports that summarize their success against their weekly goals. This isn’t micromanaging.

Micromanaging is directing the step-by-step direction that the team needs to take to complete a task. It limits creative solutions and over the long term will stagnate the company’s success. By allowing creativity within the team you are nurturing compassion.

Compassion feeds the freedom to be creative, allowing employees to become engaged in the process, and ultimately love what they are doing. They will see the benefit in working through that task and be proud of what they have accomplished, further strengthening the team and the company.

In the Home

The topic of chores usually has both parents and children cringing. It includes frustrated parents trying to get their kids to do the chores. Not to mention, whining children that would rather play than to do that chore. Is it worth it?

It is worth it, believe me. When we started delegating chores or tasks to the kids, we were thinking that this is what all good parents do. They teach their kids life skills on cleaning and cooking. We expected the fights because after all, we were kids too. But we held strong and persevered.

Then we changed the way we did things. We changed the way we asked them to do the chores. What we didn’t expect was how this little change affected them personally.

Instead of making it about the task, we simply explained that we needed their help so that we could get it all done faster. It sounds simple, but it worked. It worked every time. We would work together as a team to get the tasks done and then we were rewarded with more time as a family having fun or friends visiting.

This simple change in the way we asked the kids to help, nurtured compassion within our kids and helped us use a delegation that works. It showed them how to help others, and how being kind to one another benefits everyone.

We are always being told that our kids are kind, compassionate, and helpful. We see that in their school, work and personal life constantly, and couldn’t be more proud of them. What surprised me the most was the strong connection between how we delegated tasks in the home, to their core values.

Delegating with compassion while at the office strengthens the team, through employee engagement, creativity, and productivity. If it works at the office, it will work at home as well. The key to delegating at home is to nurture compassion.

To do this, it is important to make them feel like they are needed to help the family. It is time for us mom’s stop trying to do it all, and ask for help. Don’t micromanage the end result, just be grateful they are helping and learning to be kind, compassionate, and helpful little humans. Even if that is your little secret right now.

Whether you are in the home or office, focusing on compassion will help provide delegation that works. Compassion to help nurture employees will improve their overall engagement and productivity. When you change the way you ask your children to help around the house, you are nurturing compassion within them. In the end, everyone benefits.

Are you delegating?