#Delegate December 17
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In December 2025, many of us will take part in the 30-Day Rewind Coach4aday Challenge. Each day, we’ll rewind, review, reflect or—in my case—re-blog one of my nearly 4,000 posts that highlight experiences shaping us into better versions of ourselves. If you don’t have a blog, your reflections can come from a journal or even a meaningful memory tied to something learned, a goal reached, or a personal effort to improve. These daily habits of looking back will serve as a powerful springboard for taking on a new and ambitious challenge in 2026. Today my rewind is on the ability to DELEGATE.
Often, when helping clients identify a leader, the selected candidate is stepping into a primary leadership role after serving in a secondary one. Whether it is an assistant coach becoming a head coach, an employee becoming a manager, a director becoming a vice president, and a vice president becoming president. They all have to deal with how to delegate to others. On May 26, 2019, I wrote a post about the importance of new leaders entrusting their team via delegation.
Rewind-30 Day Challenge Guidelines
As with previous challenges, participants are encouraged to adapt the guidelines to fit their own circumstances. If you can, commit to sharing a rewind, review, or reflection during the month of December.
- Rewind, review, or reflect on a past effort to improve, a lesson you learned, or a goal you accomplished.
- Share with a challenge partner if you have one.
- Join the conversation by posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge
December 17-Delegate
When leaders are promoted, they sometimes fail to realize that what they need to do is spend time developing their team.
Some of those challenges related to permitting others to do the work are connected to the reasons below.
- For some leaders it is trusting that others will work as hard as they do
- For some it is letting go of tasks because they falsely believe others are not as competent as they are.
- The guilt of asking others to do what they do best
- Not clearly defining the tasks that need to be completed
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