Delegating to Your New Executives

Title : "Delegating to Your New Executives".Business


Once the new
members of your team are on board, it's time for the truly hard part: trusting
them. Your gut will fight you every step of the way. You'll assume your
instructions are clear and misunderstandings are their fault. You'll assume when
you disagree that you're right and they're wrong. But you'll sometimes be wrong.
The key to successful executive relationships is changing what your gut tells
you.

  Remember how
you interviewed for trust? That's important because once you hire an executive
team, you must let them take their responsibilities and run with them. That
means agreeing with them about what their roles are, what deliverables they're
responsible for and on what timeframe.
It's also
worth deciding in advance how you'll handle disagreements. You hired this person
assuming their judgment was better than yours. So when you disagree, if you did
your job right, chances are that they're right and you're wrong. Discuss early
on about how you'll make the call, so you get the most benefit from constructive
conflict. Just remember: If you agree on everything, one of you is redundant.


Entrepreneurship is about going for the things that are much bigger than what
you could do alone. Your job isn't to reach the goal; it's to build a team that
will reach the goal. If you really want to reach your goals, you'll need to
bring on others to help, and creating a good executive team means knowing what
you need them to do, finding good candidates, and giving them what they need to
do their jobs. If you choose well, they'll be successful and make you successful
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