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Why You're Not Delegating - And the Simple Tool That Fixes It
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- The Leader's Kitbag
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- Jul 15, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 428
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Summary
Most leaders I work with know they should delegate more. They say it regularly. And yet, somehow, the same decisions, meetings, and projects stay on their plate. In this episode of The Leaders Kitbag, I explore why effective delegation is so difficult - not in theory, but in practice - and introduce a simple process to help you let go of the right things with more confidence. It turns out the problem isn't knowledge. Most leaders understand delegation well enough. What gets in the way is something much more human; worry. Worry that things will go wrong, that something will get missed, or that they'll be left accountable for a result they couldn't control. There's a neuroscience reason for that too. Our brains are wired to give more weight to what might go wrong than to what might go right. Psychologists call it negativity bias, and it means that when you ask yourself "should I delegate this?", your brain is already working against you. I share a tool I developed to counter exactly that, the Momentum Process, which reframes the way you assess risk so you can make clearer, more confident decisions about what to hand over and what to hold. In this episode, you will learn: Why leaders who know how to delegate still struggle to actually do it How negativity bias quietly keeps you stuck in the detail Why starting with the upside changes how you assess risk The four-step Momentum Process for making confident delegation decisions Why most risks are smaller and more recoverable than they feel in the moment Ben's Key Takeaway The leaders who struggle most with effective delegation aren't failing because they don't care. They're struggling because they care too much, and their brain is trying to protect the people and results they feel responsible for. That's not a flaw. That's l…