S4 E18 - How Leaders Delegate with Todd Randall

The Inspire Podcast

In this episode, Bart speaks with serial entrepreneur and business coach Todd Randall about why delegation usually fails and how to be better at this critical skill. Todd begins by sharing why he struggled to delegate in his career and the mistaken assumptions (only you can do it! You'll be fired if others do the work!) that hold us back from delegating effectively. Then he outlines the system he uses to delegate, which starts with building trust, comes with lots of patience, creating an escalation plan and building redundancy. Todd's insights deconstruct the way you can create the next level of leaders. Visit Beach View's website to learn more and find them on Facebook below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeachviewCoaching/ Website: https://www.beachview.biz/ 00:16 Show intro 00:52 Introducing Todd Randall 01:49 Todd talks about his story 03:13 What's my driver? 05:05 Didn't have a "good idea" 05:31 Bought a company 08:43 Delegation is widely underutilized 09:52 Gap in experience level 11:22 Fear of delegating to others 12:30 Advice to people hesitant to delegate 13:00 Risk of not delegating 14:34 Primary job is to give your reports what they need 15:58 Fears 17:55 ROI model 18:37 Bart's examples 20:48 How do you go about delegating 21:34 Trust 25:32 Book - The Speed of Trust 25:51 Small interactions that built trust 26:31 Patience 27:23 Plan for multiple cycles of learning around delegation 29:12 Assume you'll redo the handed-off task at least twice 30:41 When to reach out if you're stuck 34:57 Create redundancies 36:39 Divvy up expertise 40:03 Coaching, not micromanaging 43:29 Bart summarizes the steps 45:41 How to find out more about Beach View 46:33 Outro