Delegate to Succeed: Free Up Time and Grow Your Business

For many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in New Zealand, senior managers often find themselves working in the business rather than on it. With the average Kiwi SMB employing between 9 and 20 people, managers frequently wear multiple hats, juggling everything from strategic decisions to repetitive daily tasks like bank reconciliations. While staying busy might feel productive, it often diverts attention away from high-value activities like growth and innovation.

The Delegation Solution

New Zealand’s relatively small market means most businesses operate on a smaller scale compared to their global counterparts. This often limits their ability to afford a large team of specialists. As a result, managers end up performing routine tasks that could easily be delegated, such as administrative work or process-driven operations.

The reality is, that when managers are tied up with low-value tasks, they’re not focusing on the high-value strategic work needed to grow the business. This is where delegating to remote staff comes in. By outsourcing repetitive tasks to talented, cost-effective remote team members, managers can free up valuable time to focus on business improvement, growth, and innovation.

Flexible, Cost-Effective Remote Workers

Many New Zealand businesses hesitate to hire because they don’t have enough work to justify a full-time role or they fear the high costs of local talent. But by leveraging offshore talent, businesses can add skilled, well-educated team members at a fraction of the cost. These remote workers can be hired on a part-time or project basis, providing the flexibility to scale up or down as needed.

With a partner like Avant People, you can access experienced remote staff without the complexities of recruitment and management. Delegating tasks such as data entry, bookkeeping, or customer support to these remote team members allows managers to reclaim their time for more strategic pursuits.

Focusing on Growth

By moving routine tasks off your plate, you create the capacity to focus on what really matters: driving the business forward. Delegating doesn’t just free up time; it empowers managers to concentrate on high-impact activities like developing new products, exploring market opportunities, or even taking a much-needed break without worrying that the business will falter.

At Avant People, we help New Zealand businesses find, train, and manage talented remote staff, so you can focus on the future while we handle the day-to-day tasks. Contact us today to learn how we can help you delegate to succeed.

Introduction

  • The average New Zealand small to medium business employees between 9 and 20 people - this small scale means senior managers typically spend too mcuh time actually working in their business rather than on it.

  • Flexible cost effective remote staff are the key to delegating repeatitive tasks that chew up managers time so that they can focus on business imrpovement and growth.

Key points

  • The reality is that New Zealand is a small market and this directly leads to its businesses being subscale for many tasks.

  • The average New Zealand small to medium business can’t afford to hire a deep team of specialists.

  • Often managers must wear many hats and perform repatitive daily tasks, like bank reconciliation, just to keep their business ticking over.

  • It might feel like they are achieving things by being busy but many business people are mistaking low-value work for high-value add management.

  • Adding talented, flexible, cost-effective remote team members to your business can free up your valuable time by taking over repetitive process-orientated tasks.

  • You can add well-educated talented team members for a fraction of the cost of hiring them in New Zealand by looking offshore with an experienced partner like Avant People.

  • You don’t need to have a full-time role in mind, flexible remote workers can be part-time or on a short-term basis.

  • By moving things off your plate you can focus on the parts of your business that add the most value.

  • Rather than taking on tasks “because they have to be done” by delegating you can focus on activities that add the most value.

  • Creating capacity in your team so that the business runs with little on a light hand on the tiller means you can take time off or explore new business ideas.

Conclusion

  • Managers of New Zealand businesses are often caught in the trap of wearing multiple hats and being tied into day to day operations.

  • Growing your business requires delegating routine tasks so that you can focus on improvement and growth.

  • Avant People can help you find, train, and manage talented remote team members so you can move the day-to-day tasks off your plate and focus on the future.

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