In our walk of life, from childhood to adulthood to old-age, we come across many people who help us in different ways at multiple occasions. We may not be able to give back to all of them, due to various circumstances! Whatever that we cannot give back to them, we must give to their children. And that will be more than giving-back as far as a parent is concerned. Give back love. Give back help. Give back money. Give back everything except hatred. Only love must transcend the generations.
May 12, 2019
Parenthood and delegation - ParenthoodDiaries #15
Something that I have learnt, more in my ten months of parenthood than in my ten years of work experience, is DELEGATION.
Knowing what to do is the first baby-step towards delegation and the how part can be, rather shall be, left to the person whom we have delegated the task; if not always, majority of times! In my work experience I have seen people who have been successful in achieving the desired results by delegating. Having closely watched them and having seen myself improving my delegation capabilities over the last few months, one thing I can say confidently is that delegation is one of the skills every individual must possess and improve time to time, be it personal or professional life.
The crux of delegation is 'confidence on our eco-system of people' and the crux of confidence is 'risk-taking capability'. To become confident on our people we must understand them and help them strengthen their desired skill. Risk taking capability is something that we can improve only by taking risks!
There is undeniably high risk in child-rearing. It could go many ways and to let it go the way it is supposed to go, we must start showing confidence in the people involved; be it maids, teachers, friends of kids, or for that matter the kids themselves, by letting them do what they need to do, while we observe and intervene on need basis. Instead if we micromanage, we ruin our children just like the way some managers ruin their teams!
Parents cannot be everywhere and do everything for their children. But parents can make their presence felt by delegating right things to the right people at every juncture of their child's journey; this includes delegating certain tasks to the children themselves.
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