4 Q's - Enhancing Flow with the Delegation Tree

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Quintessential Thought

Feeling like your team is stuck in a productivity rut? Many teams struggle with bottlenecks and inefficiencies, watching deadlines loom as tasks pile up on their desks.

Consider the Delegation Tree, a simple yet powerful framework that can help you consider which decisions you can delegate to remove decision latency bottlenecks. The Delegation Tree provides a helpful approach to assessing the risks & impacts, categorizing decisions, and selecting the most effective delegation approach for each.

Is it a “leaf-level” decision that’s low risk – delegate it completely. “Branch-level” decisions can be delegated within loose boundaries since the risk is higher, but not critical. “Trunk-level” are high risk and impact decisions that need tight boundaries and your leadership involvement. “Root-level” decisions are critical to the existence of your business and need to be held more closely.

You can read more about the Delegation Tree here. By understanding where your time is best spent and which tasks can be delegated effectively, you can create a system that flows, not jams.

Quotes

"The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't." - Anthea Turner

"Delegation is not abdication. The outcome is still your responsibility" - Michael Hyatt

"If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough." - Mario Andretti

Quick Step

Make a list of the bottlenecks in your team’s processes and identify related decisions they depend on you to make.

Question

Which decisions you make today are leaf or branch level decisions that you can start to delegate?

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