Delegation is crucial for an organization’s performance and enhancement. It is one of the core components of management leadership. This can be very difficult, as many leaders fail to realize the purpose of delegation and importance of delegating tasks. It is not just the business leaders who are benefited from delegation, but the employees of an organization too.

Ultimately, there are three main purpose of delegation.

1. Smarter time management

A common mistake leaders make is thinking they can always do things better than their subordinates. As soon as you step inside your office, you check your emails, then the phone rings, then an employee steps in to have you confirm and approve a minute detail about a task that you could have easily passed on, before you know it, you’re running behind schedule. And you haven’t even begun your own schedule.

If your employees are so used to having to ask you for every step they make, in every nook and cranny they need to check,...