CEO of a scale-up startup, manager of a fast-growing SME: here are the 8 personal tasks that you should delegate immediately to recover 10 hours per week.
You run a hyper-growth company. Every hour counts. And yet you still spend 10-15 hours a week on personal tasks that someone else could handle better than you. Here are the 8 most common delegations among our executive clients — and how much time they actually free up.
The 8 delegations that change everything
1. Residence management (3 hours/week)
Maintenance, service providers, repairs, insurance, energy contracts, gardening. You spend 3 hours per week there on average — often in the evening, when you should be resting.
2. Family medical coordination (1h30/week)
Appointments, reminders, support for elderly parents, monitoring of children. 1h30 per week fragmented into micro-tasks that break your concentration.
3. Reservations and travel logistics (1h30/week)
Restaurants, flights, hotels, transfers, visas. Each professional or personal trip generates 30 to 45 minutes of pure logistics.
4. Management of household staff (1 hour/week)
Cleaning schedules, replacement in case of absence, recruitment, training. An hour that should be managed by a hospitality professional.
5. Business and personal gifts (45min/week)
Birthdays, holidays, thank yous, customer gifts. 45 minutes of research, ordering, packaging, delivery — every week.
6. Personal administration (1 hour/week)
Mail, invoices, declarations, reminders, subscriptions. An hour of pure irritation that our assistant handles in silence.
7. Children's activities (45min/week)
Registrations, transport, equipment, coordination with other parents. 45 minutes that your spouse often delegates to you by default.
8. Car maintenance (30min/week)
Technical inspection, inspection, cleaning, insurance, report. 30 minutes per week on average, plus emergencies (breakdown, accident).
The calculation
Total: 10 hours per week. Over a year, that's 520 hours — or 13 weeks of work at 40 hours. What would you do with 13 more weeks a year?
The typical profile of our executive clients
Our clients are not all billionaires. Many are managers of SMEs from the Grand Est (50 to 500 employees), founders of scale-up startups (Illkirch biotech, Strasbourg deeptech), or firm partners (lawyers, doctors, architects). Their common point: their time has an hourly value which makes delegation not a luxury, but a rational investment.
Frequently asked questions
At what level of income is delegation profitable?
As soon as your hourly value exceeds €150/h (which is the case for most SME managers), delegating your personal tasks is an investment, not an expense.
How is the transition going?
Gradually. We start with the tasks that are easiest to transfer (residences, reservations) and we expand over 2 to 4 weeks at the client's pace.
Should my partner be involved?
It is recommended. Delegation works best when both members of the couple are aligned on priorities. We organize a joint initial interview.
