the dangers of failing to delegate
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The Dangers of Failing to
Delegate
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Most lawn care business owners start out in the field
and spend their evenings catching up
on billing, marketing, and other
office-related chores.
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This works for a while, but they are in danger of burning out if they continue to try to do
everything themselves.
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Delegation is critical if you wish to grow your business.
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Most owners wait too long to hire their first office person and begin
to delegate duties.
Why you should hire an office assistant, NOW!
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One study shows that only 1/2 of the companies surveyed felt
their employees delegated properly.
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There are many reasons for this:
• The belief that your employee can't do the job as well as you can
• The belief that it will take you less time to do the work than to delegate it
• The belief that your employee won't be as motivated and committed to quality as you
• Guilt associated with giving more work to an already overworked staff
• The need to feel indispensable
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There are several dangers to your business if you don't learn to
delegate.
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1. Higher Costs
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If you're spending time doing
something that you could hire
someone else to do, you're wasting
money.
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If you spent two hours invoicing, and your hourly rate is $40/hour, then you could have hired
someone for $14/hour to do the same work, that invoicing just cost you $52.
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Move non-billable tasks to an office person as quickly as you can so your time is spent on
tasks that make money.
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2. Lack of Motivation
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It's human nature to not want to work on the things that we
dislike or find boring; so we procrastinate working on them.
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If you spend the day working in the field
and then have to work on tasks you dislike, eventually you will
burn out.
What to do if you are starting to burn out.
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You have no time with family if you're doing everything yourself and no time to recover.
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Delegate those tasks to someone that likes to do them and who can do them better.
How to grow faster by offloading the tasks you hate!
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3. Lower Revenue
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If you’re failing to delegate, you don’t have enough time to focus on growing your business.
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Not only are you costing yourself a
significant amount of money, you’re failing to grow to
your fullest potential!
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Your company won't grow because you can't
work on sales and marketing.
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One industry expert believes that the top reason that only 9% or 10% of companies in the
industry break the $1 million mark is because the owners’ don't delegate.
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