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My leadership style is to delegate tasks to those who can handle a task and challenge those that have prove they can handle new tasks. A great part of a supervisor's job is to work themselves out of a job, or train their staff to be able to do their job.
Doing this proves to employers you can handle more responsibilities and advancement and ensures that there will be a replacement for you when you are promoted. This does not mean that you should not do any part of your job, but delegate the easier tasks to your staff to ease your burden and teach them new skills. Delegating does not mean that you are lazy. You should also not delegate a task to your staff that you would not do yourself. Doing this will cause your staff to lose respect for you. One of your goals as a supervisor should be to have a staff that can take over in the event of your sudden absence, if you were unexpectedly unable to go to work tomorrow, would anyone have any idea what was going on? Keep good records and make sure someone else always knows how to do your job, even if it's several other people that just know a part of it.

When you are your staff work as a team to get the job done you are able to meet goals and as your team gets better at the tasks you delegate you will be able to exceed goals, which should be your ultimate goal.

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