5 Tasks Every Self-Employed Person Must Delegate To Grow

The more time you can free up as a self-employed individual, the more you can earn.

So delegating is an important skill every self-employed person must take seriously.

As a self-employed person, you must wear many hats and juggle many tasks.

However, most of these tasks are not essential to your growth, and at other times, even hinder your growth by taking up productive time.

So, how do you make sure that you have enough time to deal with important tasks and grow while ensuring that other boring or administrative tasks are performed?

Delegate.

Here are five (5) tasks every self-employed person must delegate to grow:

1. Simple Administrative Tasks
2. Tedious, Low-Yield Tasks
3. Tasks That Require More Expertise Than You Have
4. Repetitive & Manual Tasks
5. Core Tasks

1. Simple Administrative Tasks

As a self-employed person, there are tasks you need to get done to ensure that your business is running properly, tasks like answering the phone, responding to emails, scheduling meetings, etc.

These tasks are usually simple to carry out and don’t take up as much time, but cumulatively, they take up a chunk of your productive hours and can distract you from other more critical tasks that you ought to be focused on.

You should always delegate such tasks, so you can free up more time for yourself to perform other tasks that help you grow.

2. Tedious, Low-Yield Tasks

These next set of tasks may not be as easy to perform as the administrative tasks, but they need to be delegated, nonetheless.

These tasks are boring and things you never thought you would do when you dreamt of working on your own.

You should delegate boring tasks like bookkeeping, the drafting of contracts and agreements, and a few others that may be industry specific.

So, look out for those tasks that bore you to death but don’t bring in as much value and delegate them.

3. Tasks That Require More Expertise Than You Have

Another set of tasks you should delegate as a self-employed person are those tasks that you have little or no skill in or, put another way, tasks that someone else can do much better than you.

The definition here can vary depending on your skill set as a self-employed individual, but you should know yourself enough to know which tasks fall into this category.

These are tasks that you typically can do yourself with average results, but that someone else can do excellently.

Delegating such tasks helps your business grow because it frees up your time to do other things that you are better skilled at, and also ensures that these tasks are done much better than you would have.

4. Repetitive & Manual Tasks

A few other tasks you should look to delegate are those repetitive tasks that you have to do manually as part of your job.

Unlike administrative tasks, these tasks are predictable.

These tasks include anything from posting on social media, to backing up your website and contact lists, to creating monthly marketing reports, etc.

You can delegate such tasks to an automation agent and even get an assistant to oversee the processes.

5. Core Tasks

As a self-employed person, there are tasks that your entity cannot function without. I call them the core tasks.

For instance, if you are a graphics designer, a core task will be to create graphics for clients.

And without you, they cannot perform such tasks.

By delegating such tasks (we recommend gradually at first), you ensure that your entity can continue to operate in the unfortunate event of your absence.

Many self-employed individuals cannot delegate such tasks because, honestly, it can be scary – but think of it as a contingency to ensure that you can always earn even when you can’t perform those tasks yourself.

What tasks are you delegating as a self-employed person?

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