you’ll trust them faster than you expect

Leaders often overestimate how many successes they’ll need to see from their people before they can freely trust them to own things without a lot of oversight. My experience has been that they overestimate by 3x or more. Overestimating that much can stymie their first attempts. 

If you assume you’d need to see 10 successes, it’s likelier ~2-3 would do the job. 

You and your people both learn more if you give them meaningful stuff to own and give them feedback on how well they do it. You might be surprised how quickly you’re ready to hand certain things over altogether once you start. Starting is good, even if the point where they’ll be autonomous and you’ll be anxiety-free seems distant and hazy.

-Ben