Coaching practices for Raci Accountable Owner

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• 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
• A deadline just blew past and when I asked what happened, everyone pointed at someone else
• I handed this to "the team" without naming one clear owner, and now everyone assumes someone else has it
• We sorted out who owned what at kickoff, but the project has shifted and two people have left since then, and now decisions are getting made by folks who aren’t even in those roles anymore
• We keep re-arguing the same decision we already settled weeks ago because no one wrote down what we chose or why

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Assign exactly one Accountable per decision
   Every decision or deliverable must have exactly one A — not zero, not two.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
3. Set clear, single-point accountability
   One named owner, an agreed standard, and a check-in cadence set up front — not nagging.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
4. Review the RACI when scope or team changes
   A RACI built at kickoff and never updated is out of date the moment the first change happens.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
5. The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
   A RACI matrix assigns one of four roles — Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed — to every person for every key decision or task in a project. Its main value is preventing the two most common team failures: work falling through the cracks because no one owns it, and decisions stalling because too many people feel they must approve them.
6. Pair the RACI with a decision log
   Knowing who decides is only half the system — recording what was decided closes the accountability loop.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
7. Assign one owner to every Action Step
   Any Action Step shared by multiple owners effectively has no owner — every step needs exactly one named person responsible.
   The Action Method, Made Practical
8. Transfer authority with the responsibility
   Give people the decision rights and resources the task actually requires.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
9. Take extreme ownership of outcomes — even ones that aren’t your fault
   Claiming ownership of everything in your domain — even external failures — is the fastest path to fixing them.
   Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework
10. Take extreme ownership
    When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
    Extreme Ownership, Made Practical

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