Successful outsourcing is evident when your company and your team develop at the same pace and business is growing. To obtain success in outsourcing, you must establish effective team management and trust. Even with a type-A personality, a business owner can adapt to it, learn to trust, and lead their team.
Let’s discuss five ways in which you can feel confident in outsourcing work successfully even as a type-A personality.
Let go of Control
Letting go of control is extremely difficult as a type-A personality; however, it’s not impossible to learn how to trust others by delegating small tasks to start. By doing so, you’ll increase your confidence in their abilities and learn to trust while giving them an opportunity to accomplish a task and build their confidence in being able to meet your demands.
There are limits in what you can and cannot do. Stop spoon feeding instructions to your team members and give them direction to get started. Let them figure it out, use their creativity, and troubleshoot to complete the task. By doing so, you’ll help expand their skills and tap into their unlimited potential.
Use a Project Management System
Using a project management system such as Asana or Trello, will allow to you to manage projects, communicate with your team, chart progress, and meet deadlines. This is one of the best ways to manage and communicate with your team, especially if they are all over the world.
Hold Team Meetings
Being in a team is about working with distinct individuals with different personality traits and contradicting thoughts. Conducting team meetings can improve rapport, communication with other teammates, and camaraderie. Not only that, but you will be able to build rapport and trust as a leader for your team.
Start with Small Projects
As mentioned previously, starting with small tasks to outsource and delegate will ease your type-A personality and mind while building your confidence in trust that someone else can handle the job and you’re not the only one that can do it. Therefore, start small and work your way up to more important tasks.
Don’t Micromanage Everything
Do not micromanage everything as the leader of your business. Let your team spread their wings a bit. Allow them to troubleshoot, use their creativity, ask for support from other team members, and more to complete their task. Micromanaging your team is a time waster; and to be honest, it can suffocate their creativity and drive to complete the project.
You see, outsourcing as a type-A personality doesn’t have to be complicated or stressful. Start small, be mindful of your actions, build trust, and confidence in your team. Over time this will get easier for you as you adapt to not being in control of everything. It’s perfectly ok to take baby steps and know that others can do the job and do it just as well as you, if not even better!
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