The Dangers of Failing to

Delegate

Most lawn care business owners start out in the field

and spend their evenings catching up

on billing, marketing, and other

office-related chores.

This works for a while, but they are in danger of burning out if they continue to try to do

everything themselves.

Delegation is critical if you wish to grow your business.

Most owners wait too long to hire their first office person and begin

to delegate duties.

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One study shows that only 1/2 of the companies surveyed felt

their employees delegated properly.

There are many reasons for this:

• The belief that your employee can't do the job as well as you can

• The belief that it will take you less time to do the work than to delegate it

• The belief that your employee won't be as motivated and committed to quality as you

• Guilt associated with giving more work to an already overworked staff

• The need to feel indispensable

There are several dangers to your business if you don't learn to

delegate.

1. Higher Costs

If you're spending time doing

something that you could hire

someone else to do, you're wasting

money.

If you spent two hours invoicing, and your hourly rate is $40/hour, then you could have hired

someone for $14/hour to do the same work, that invoicing just cost you $52.

Move non-billable tasks to an office person as quickly as you can so your time is spent on

tasks that make money.

2. Lack of Motivation

It's human nature to not want to work on the things that we

dislike or find boring; so we procrastinate working on them.

If you spend the day working in the field

and then have to work on tasks you dislike, eventually you will

burn out.

What to do if you are starting to burn out.

You have no time with family if you're doing everything yourself and no time to recover.

Delegate those tasks to someone that likes to do them and who can do them better.

How to grow faster by offloading the tasks you hate!

3. Lower Revenue

If you’re failing to delegate, you don’t have enough time to focus on growing your business.

Not only are you costing yourself a

significant amount of money, you’re failing to grow to

your fullest potential!

Your company won't grow because you can't

work on sales and marketing.

One industry expert believes that the top reason that only 9% or 10% of companies in the

industry break the $1 million mark is because the owners’ don't delegate.

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