Vacations are a good time to take rest and recover energy, but When this moment arrives, some managers don´t take the time or go out for a few days “stick” with the notebooks and blackberries…

The vacation time it is very important for a Manager, nevertheless be in the office allows him to resolve any issue inmediatly, this happen more often when the manager don´t know how to delegate. A Manager knows that it is impossible to do everything by himself, but sometimes them avoid to delegate tasks. There are four causes because manager don´t delegate:

- “I can´t delegate, because I need to control it everything”

 This atitud show a lack of confidence to his employees, to resolve this, remember that confidence can be built based on:
 - Comunication: as a manager you need to talk and listen to the members of your team
- Compromise: your co-workers must be align with the enterprise goals.
- Competence: you must be surrounded for the best people you can

- “I have no time to teach the task, so I do it by myself”

The reality is the opposite. A Manager must have a time to teach to his employees. Each task that no teach avoid our growth capability in the enterprise, instead of think that teach a task is a waste of time, you must think in this as an investment.

- “I do the job better than nobody”

If you think in this way, maybe you are not a good leader.Great leader surround with people better than himself, so they can complement their own capabilities.

- “The task it is so important to be delegated”

As a primary responsibility a Manager must define the strategy. The execution of this strategy and all the tasks involved, must be in charge of his team. If we do operational tasks, who is think?!

Please, If you want to take vacations and have a balanced style of life, keep this concepts in mind.

We spend a lot of time helping leaders learn what to do, we don´t spend enough time helping leaders learn what to stop…

Interesting, isn´t it?

To know in what he invests the time: identify “his spendthrifts of time”  of his team of work. Are you doing things that he does not need, like to go to unproductive meetings?

To focus in the contribution: he must asking himself: what can I do to affect of significant form the results of this organization?

To develop fortitude: his own and the his subordinates. If you work with the people, benefit from his fortitude instead of concentrating on his weaknesses or flaws.

To establish priorities: do the most important things first. Those who commit themselves with a long list of projects, and advance a little every day, they do not reach turned out in any.

To systematize the decision making:
a) define the problem in precise and finished way.
b) specify what the decision must achieve.
c) turn the decision into action (report what debit to do to him who it should do it).
d) prove the effectiveness of the decision obtaining feedback.

• He knows that his worst enemy is the pride and the self-sufficiency.
• It understands that to live extinguishing fires does not allow to generate the conditions to avoid them.
• He avoids to create rules that could not be applied.
• He constructs an ambience of work where the people want to be.
• It understands that the fear, it is not a tool to persuade the people.
• He insures himself of making people more productive.

2. THE LAW OF THE INFLUENCE
The real measurement of the leadership is the influence — nothing more, neither more nor less

3. THE LAW OF THE FIRM AREA
The confidence is the foundation of the leadership

4. THE LAW OF THE INTIMATE CIRCLE
The potential of a leader is determined by those who are closer to him

5. THE LAW OF THE VICTORY
The leaders find the form of which the team wins

6. THE LAW OF THE SACRIFICE
A leader must yield to rise

7. THE LAW OF THE OPPORTUNE MOMENT
When is to be a leader so important as what to do and where to go

8. THE LAW OF THE LEGACY
The lasting value of the leader measures itself for the succession

9. THE LAW OF THE GRANTING OF POWERS
Only the sure leaders grant power to others

10. THE LAW OF THE RESPECT
For nature, the people follow leaders who are stronger than they themselves