Delegation is an essential function of leadership, and yet I find that many leaders perceive it in a negative light. This seems reasonable to me because, at one point, I too perceived it negatively. Perhaps this was because I had experiences where supervisors had given me tasks that seemed mundane and irrelevant to my work. Delegating appeared to be a way for them to lessen their load by taking tasks off their plate and putting them on mine. It seemed to benefit them, not me. And so, when I became a supervisor, I avoided delegation to prevent my colleagues from feeling the same way. My tactic of avoiding delegation was wrong.