It allows you to focus on the big picture and on your most important tasks. It helps you to be a team player and to develop other workers. First - decide what to delegate The point of delegating is to free yourself, first, from routine, low level or mechanical tasks which someone else can do, perhaps better and more efficiently than you. Such tasks could include writing routine letters. An assistant, selecting from an array form letters covering many circumstances, is an effective way to handle routine correspondence.
Voice mail can screen most phone calls.
Many excellent services can handle addressing and envelope stuffing, packaging and mailing and large copying or printing jobs. If you develop a system for handling all your paperwork, then someone else can take it over and keep your desk organized and your files where you can find them. If you're the creative voice in a design team, make sure someone else does the technical work. Even if you started out that way, as an entrepreneur, juggling a dozen different types of tasks, you ultimately must learn to focus on what you do best and leave the rest to someone else. Delegate anything low priority or which doesn't require your personal attention to achieve your primary goals.