Delegating to the less competent

• This is reality where, to save costs, low skilled people are hired and no one has the slightest clue but the manager.
• Is this an effective, long term way to operate? Or is this only a short term solution?
• What can you do to change it?
• In the short term, how can you make the most of it? Can you initiate a longer term strategy at the same time? Can you train or hire more qualified staff?
• Can you start by coaching and delegating by degrees, starting small and developing people in accordance with their ability to grow?
• Can you see this time spent as an investment in a better, long term future?
• Alternatively, you might have pretty good people working for you already but you might be keeping them in their place by not letting them develop.
• Do you make people feel stupid for their mistakes - and in public?
• Do you come across as the only person who has the right answers?
• Or, do you patiently draw solutions out of your team, being supportive when they are off track but genuinely trying?
  What do you feel drives you to operate as you are?
• What can you change in your approach?
• Can you avoid concluding that it's someone else's fault?
• Even if others push us in a certain direction, we can always ask ourselves what can WE do differently.