Home featured Advice Featured Leadership Advice Advice 5 Management styles that cultivate the most productive teams Guest Author August 11, 2015 “It’s not worth delegating because no one does it as well as I do.” This is just one of the excuses I hear from managers when I ask why they haven’t delegated low value work to someone else in their team. Alternatively they’ll say, “It takes three times as long to delegate then it does to do it myself,” or even worse, “I don’t mind doing it.” If you’re one of the many leaders who says such things you’re unlikely to have a highly productive team. Why? Because you and your team members are either not working on the right high value tasks to move the company forward, or your team has inefficiencies which are not being addressed. As a leader it’s your responsibility to develop the capability of your team to help them be highly efficient and effective. You should also be spending your time on the right activities to move the team forward. Every time you work on a task which is below your level of capability you’re losing time which should be devoted to strategic and leadership tasks. When your team is efficient, they are highly organised and get their work done to a standard of quality and within timeframes. When your team is effective, your team members are clear on their goals and high value activities and they focus on these activities as much as