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2:09 Intro

• Intro/Opening remarks
• The topic is: Delegating - how to make other people do your stuff

2:52 Sponsors

• SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
• Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

4:10 Overview of working smarter, not harder

• Finding a way to delegate work to others on your team, while making sure they are being done with high quality
• Following the next steps
  • What it means to be a great leader
  • Who’s responsible/accountable
  • Process Documentation
  • Delegation
• “Documenting your processes and having a plan is like delegating to your future self” -M
• Documenting processes means you are ready to delegate to someone else
• There are things that you can’t delegate
• Being busy doesn’t always mean you’re being productive
• You shouldn’t feel like you’re stuck running on a hamster wheel - take a hamster vacation
• “Without delegation, I was running myself ragged working 18-20 hours a day, sleeping 4 hours a day, not eating, not taking care of myself.” -B
  • Running a business means everything has to get done

9:08 When do I need to delegate?

• “It’s like planting a tree. The right answer is yesterday and the second-best answer is today.” -M
• Task Triage
  • Do it now *NOW*
    • Important and high priority
  • Do it later *LATER*
    • Important, but not urgent

Above line = YOU ------------------------------------- Below line =OTHERS

• Delegate it *NOW*
  • It needs to get done, but not by me
  • Urgent, but not important
• Dump it *LATER*
  • Not urgent, not important
• Deconstruct the task if you’re not clear where it falls on the task triage
  • Break the task into smaller parts and see where it fits in the triage
  • YOU don’t always need to do all 7 steps - only number 4 - delegate the rest
• “The magic of delegation and prioritization comes in when breaking it down” -M
• KISS rule
  • Keep
  • It
  • Simple
  • Stupid

13:45 Segmenting to the triage

• Use the 80/20 rule
  • Do it now = 20%
  • Do it later = 80%

20% Above line = YOU ------------------------------------- 80% Below line =OTHERS

• Start with email inbox management
  • An email is not a thing, it’s a container for a thing
  • 80% of your inbox are things that you don’t need to do
    • Delegate it
  • Start small and find what works for you
• Documenting your process isn’t meant to add more work to your load.
  • Back the truck up
  • This will allow you to delegate it out and lessen your workload

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