Church leaders have extraordinary demands on their time. So when it comes to experiencing growth in your church, you have to think differently about how you run it—and it starts with effective delegation. First, you have to identify your 80/20. The 80/20 rule says that 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your efforts, so determine which tasks merit 20 percent of your efforts.
Next, you’ll apply the 70-percent rule where you determine if the person you’d like to perform the task can do it at least 70 percent as well as you can so you can delegate. Be prepared to find new and exciting ways to (re-)focus your time, talent and treasures with all the time you just reclaimed for yourself and your church.
Delegating can help remove the burden of important but low-value tasks from your responsibility. And as those to whom you delegate handle more and more tasks, you get more and more time to focus on that which only you can do: Growing your church as its leader, visionary, dreamer, and big-idea-haver. You’ve got this, and delegation can help.
