From the course: Time Management for Managers
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Invest in training others
- Investing in others and helping them grow is vital to your productivity and efficiency as a manager. Have you ever caught yourself thinking something like this? "By the time I train them to do this, "I could have done it myself." This mindset gets you stuck in forever doing things yourself. It will suck your clock dry of every single minute you have because you run around and put out the fires that other people create. This is not management. Managing is getting results through others. So we must teach others to perform better and to become leaders themselves. If you do that, it will save tremendous amounts of time in your day. Here are a few areas to consider. First, learn with the intent to teach. When you go through a course like this, avoid thinking just about yourself and what you are getting out of it. Instead, learn what the idea of having to teach it to someone else, then after learning, teach a little bit of it to someone else. I'm not saying that they should go through…
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