Three Ways to Help “Do-It-All” Employees Start to Delegate - Page 2
2. For the same two week period delegate at least one action item on your schedule to them. Tell them very clearly what you expect and when you expect what you have given them to be done. Do not enter into a dialogue. Be gravity! This is a way for them to learn by example.
3. Ask about how power was delegated in the home when your employee was growing up. Do not push for an answer. If you are comfortable, share how you were rewarded (or not) for doing tasks as a child. Simply by getting your employee to observe the power-helplessness continuum they will begin to notice their need for doing it all is from a time when they felt powerless.
This is a beginning to create several pattern interrupt situations that will loosen the “Nots” your employee has developed over his or her lifetime. These "nots" are cannot, am not, should not, not good enough, and not possible.
We now know enough about neuro-psychology to help change the self- defeating behaviors we all learned to some degree as we were growing up. Have your employee go to www.sylvialafair.com and take the free pattern aware quiz to get a broader understanding of the underlying patterns that create the need to be a martyr and have to do it all, all the time.
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