4 ways to optimize time, maximize potential by letting your team lead

With organizations engaged in many competing actions and objectives, we’re often inundated with tasks and new initiatives that seem to go on forever. If you’ve ever been in three meetings at once, driven to your next appointment while responding to phone calls, or spent your weekend answering e-mails, you aren’t alone. The amount of work we need to accomplish in a single week has become impossible, and there never seems to be a break. The question isn’t “How do I reduce my meetings?” but rather “How do I let my team lead?” Your goal should be to maximize the potential of the team to better optimize your own time and efficiency. Read on to learn how you got here and understand the ways in which you may be contributing to your own chaos.

Consider letting go

Take yourself out of every conversation, which can create a decision-making bottleneck. If taking a back seat gives you anxiety, ask yourself why. Is it fear of what may happen, or is it a lack of trust for those completing the work? Either way, the bottlenecks exist, and you’re slowing the team’s progress. When you understand the “why” behind it, you can begin to work toward a resolution: