Business
5 Levels of Delegation and How to Use Them to Grow Your Business
Learn to delegate intentionally and effectively to make the process easy for both you and your employees
Delegation is one of the surest ways to grow your business. But as Michael Gerber tells us in his E-Myth books, business owners often end up abdicating rather than delegating. That’s a lethal mistake. A way to avoid that is to know when and to whom a task can or should be delegated. And to know that, you should know the levels of delegation.
There are five, six, or seven levels of delegation, depending on which author or expert you ask — I will be using a five-level system in this post. It’s not how many levels you have that counts, or even what they are. It’s how well you can use them. It’s about knowing what level of delegation to use, when, and with whom.
1. Do as I say
This means, do it exactly as directed; do not deviate, interpret, or alter the assignment in any way.
