Do you recognize this? You are not (yet) a manager, but still you have the feeling that you have to manage all kinds of employees close to you to make sure that you can do your job properly. You do need the help of one or more colleagues on a regular basis and because you are not a manager, you cannot address them from a hierarchical position. Sometimes you have the feeling that you are always last with your request for help. As if all managers are helped first and only then you. It often happens that you perform the activities you wanted to delegate yourself. Even the simple tasks, which you shouldn't have to do yourself for years now.
Fortunately, that doesn't have to be the case. You too can ensure that you get the support of the colleagues that you need, so that you no longer have to do the simple tasks yourself, but can continue to develop, so you earn more salary and remain attractive for the job market, while you work fewer hours.
The great thing about being a professional is that you are not (yet) a manager and therefore you are not expected to be able to manage, but that you can work on your management skills so that you can use them to get the support you need from your colleagues. After all, you too have human resources (colleagues) at your disposal that can help you achieve your objectives. Without having to work harder yourself. On the contrary, the better you arrange it, the easier it will be for you to achieve your goals and the less you will have to do yourself.
However, it does require good Human Resources Management.
Hardly any professional succeeds in this. In general, they think Human Resources Management is only about employers and managers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone has private or business people (human resources) around them, who you will have to manage if you want them to do what you want them to do.
If you don't do that, you are forced to do a lot of work yourself that you shouldn't have done yourself for a long time. As a result, your development will stop, your salary will (almost) no longer rise and your job market position will gradually deteriorate.
You run the risk at some point of being overtaken by a younger colleague or suddenly being confronted with your employer's wish to fire you because you no longer have sufficient added value. Not developing yourself is not an option for you as a professional. You will have to continue to develop yourself in order to remain attractive for the job market.