Delegate Your Work to Automation.

You’re a leader. It’s your job to ensure goals are met and employees are engaged. But, we all know it’s not that simple. In our fast-paced world, delegation is key. It’s important to delegate to others on your team, but, also to automation. In this blog, our goal is to break down how you (as a leader) can automate the cumbersome aspects of your work.

VP Engineering/Product

You’re high on the totem pole, your time is precious. Your ultimate goals are to develop strategy and make reliable decisions. But, somehow, you continuously find yourself running around to track down the information you need to accomplish these goals.

Your team is always trying to automate elements of their workflow with things like Zapier and APIs, or creating custom scripts, in an attempt to streamline the movement of data between tools. While this can be very useful for consolidation, the reality is that it’s not enough.

To get a high-level view of everything, you still need to check-in with your team for their context and status updates. This likely happens manually, via weekly sync meetings or direct engagement with individual team members. Delegating your mundane work to automation is key to enabling you to focus on what is most important.

Director HR/Operations

It’s your job to ensure things are running smoothly, structure is upheld and employees are in an environment where they can thrive. But when most of your work is relationship building with people, a lot of your processes end up being unstructured and constantly evolve. So naturally, a lot of your time is consumed with manually organizing the information you’re receiving from these people and making sure it’s up to date.

While there are plenty of tools for the structured processes (from payroll to inventory tracking), your day-to-day is mostly managed in email, documents, and calendars. To optimize your time you need help bringing information to you in an organized manner, so you don’t have to chase it down. You need to automate your workflows with colleagues and simplify communication.

Marketing Manager

The core of your role is ensuring your brand and products are positioned and promoted to their fullest potential. It’s your job to make your company’s products and services attractive to prospects, customers, investors and the media. It would be ideal if you went from having an idea to immediately executing it, without the in-between. But, as you probably know all too well, the in-between consumes a lot of your time with responsibilities such as tracking people down and getting the latest status updates on their pieces of the puzzle.

You are lucky in the sense that you have lots of automation tools at your disposal. Think about the comprehensive platforms available to you (like Hubspot, Qlik, and Hootsuite). Each of these things helps to automate different tactical processes. But, they don’t help with the tiresome back and forth you have to endure. So much of your job is understanding the moving pieces that happen between the visible accomplishments. The tools available to you don’t automate the tedious work that must be done to ensure an end project actually gets pulled together.

Stop With The Tedium

For these leadership roles (and every other), the work that isn’t tangible is exactly the thing that is taking up most of your time. You need something to help with the back and forth, tracking information down, endless emails and frequent (but necessary) status updates.

Meet Tonkean. Our platform enables you to automate the work processes that aren’t structured. These tedious activities that take up so much of your time and don’t show clear results, are exactly the thing keeping you from accomplishing your goals. So, why are you spending time on them? It’s because you have to. They are a necessary evil that must be faced within any business, but Tonkean solves the problem from start to finish.

Simply, set up what you want to track in Tonkean, identify key stakeholders and their responsibilities, connect your relevant tools and you’re good to go. Our AI-powered bot will proactively reach out to team members for status updates and continuously works to ensure you’re kept up-to-date. If there’s an anomaly in something you’re tracking, Tonkean identifies it (metrics, deadlines, updates, etc.) and will reach out to the people responsible to see what the problem is.

As a leader, all you have to do is monitor your Tonkean dashboard and get back to being strategic and creative. Watch how manual emails, meetings and status updates virtually disappear from your day. The information you used to get from these things will be readily available for you in Tonkean, whenever you need it.

Stop with the ‘work about work’ and get back to being a leader.