Coaching practices for No Separation of Roles and Responsibilities in Current Department Leading to Conflict

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• My departments are each winning their own little battles while the whole thing loses
• Everything still funnels through me because I own the outcome, so I can’t hand off the actual doing without feeling like I’ve let it go entirely
• There’s a low hum of resentment building in me about who does what around the house
• I’m quietly furious about how much I carry, but we never actually agreed on who does what
• I hand something off thinking I was clear, and then they wait around for my go-ahead while I assumed they’d just run with it

Practices that may help

1. Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
   Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
2. Separate the doer (R) from the owner (A)
   The person who does the work is often not the person who owns the outcome — make this explicit.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
3. Share tasks equitably — and feel equitable about it
   Divide practical responsibilities in a way both partners experience as fair.
   Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
4. Negotiate roles and responsibilities explicitly
   Make implicit expectations explicit so resentment doesn’t fill the gap.
   The Shared Meaning System
5. Name the delegation level explicitly at the start of every task
   State clearly whether you want a recommendation, a decision with notification, or a decision without notification — before the work begins.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
6. Align around collective results, not individual status
   Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
7. Performing: step back and protect the conditions
   A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
8. Engage in productive ideological conflict
   Teams that avoid conflict don’t avoid disagreement — they bury it, where it grows into resentment and bad decisions.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
9. Structured delegation for Q3 tasks
   Hand off urgent-but-not-important tasks with a clear brief, defined success criteria, and a check-in cadence.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
10. Establish an explicit delegation protocol for Q3 tasks
    Define in advance who receives which types of urgent-but-not-important tasks — before they arrive.
    The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams

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