Day 1: Designing Delegation and Authority Levels

Leadership Work Portfolio

• Sort activities by value and urgency
• Identify tasks consuming disproportionate leadership attention
• Separate temporarily retained executive decisions
• Diagnose a realistic leadership workweek

Authority and Responsibility Levels

• Define the decision scope granted clearly
• Match autonomy with assignment risk exposure
• Set explicit triggers for early escalation
• Choose authority levels across varied cases

Assessing Individual Readiness

• Assess experience motivation and demonstrated reliability
• Check existing workload before transferring ownership
• Select support appropriate to readiness level
• Simulate assignment conversations with potential delegates

Day 2: Releasing Time and Managing Commitments

Defining Outcome Definition

• Describe final deliverables through observable standards
• Clarify priorities constraints and available resources
• Agree realistic dates for completed delivery
• Rewrite an ambiguous assignment into clarity

Protecting Leadership Capacity

• Reserve calendar space for high-value decisions
• Reduce interruptions through agreed communication rules
• Batch similar approvals into defined windows
• Rebuild a congested leader calendar

Team Workload Balance

• Display current commitments through visible board
• Prevent repeated overloading of reliable performers
• Redistribute work according to available capacity
• Apply capacity mapping to one team

Day 3: Review, Accountability, and Delegation Simulation

Applied Purposeful Checkpoints

• Tie reviews to highest-risk stages
• Request evidence instead of general updates
• Adjust support without reclaiming assignment ownership
• Design checkpoints for a critical deliverable

Responding to Deviation

• Diagnose delay causes before judging performance
• Frame questions returning responsibility to assignees
• Define corrective action with a deadline
• Rehearse a conversation about stalled results

Delegation System Lab

• Select a portfolio of transferable responsibilities
• Allocate authority standards support and reviews
• Present the system to peer reviewers
• Refine arrangements against execution risks

• Leadership workweek diagnosis identifying transferable responsibilities
• Delegation and review conversations with structured feedback
• Capacity boards exposing bottlenecks and workload imbalance
• A lab producing a complete team delegation system