Training Will Set You Free

Have you ever hired a new employee, and after assigning them a deluge of tasks you start struggling to come up with new things for them to do? Often, it can take as much if not more time handing off tasks than it would have been to just complete the task on your own. Instead of managing new hires through tasks, manage them through a training program. Start small. If you don’t have a training program, have the employee build it as they complete their tasks. Ask to review their documents and course correct. They’ll develop a sense of ownership and the time you spend with them is leveraged beyond the task itself. Once you show someone exactly how to do something, and you are confident that they know how to do it, then you can stop assigning tasks and rely on them to do the job.