Coaching practices for Raci Best Practices

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• 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
• 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
• Every small call drags out for days because I’ve looped in so many people for their input that nobody’s opinion actually moves the needle anymore
• We keep re-arguing the same decision we already settled weeks ago because no one wrote down what we chose or why
• A deadline just blew past and when I asked what happened, everyone pointed at someone else

Practices that may help

1. 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.
2. 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   A RACI built at kickoff and never updated is out of date the moment the first change happens.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
3. 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
4. Limit Consulted to people whose input genuinely changes the decision
   Every C is a two-way conversation that costs time; over-consulting is as dangerous as under-consulting.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
5. 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
6. The Rule of Reciprocity, Made Practical
   Reciprocity is a deep cross-cultural norm: people feel a strong, often uncomfortable obligation to return favors — even uninvited ones, and even when the return is disproportionately large. Cialdini documented this in his influence research and it maps onto evolutionary accounts of cooperation. It can be used to build genuine goodwill or, exploited unethically, to manufacture obligation — the difference matters and is usually detectable.
7. Assign exactly one Accountable per decision
   Every decision or deliverable must have exactly one A — not zero, not two.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
8. Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
   An effective one-on-one is a recurring, protected meeting that belongs to your report: they own the agenda, and your job is to listen, unblock, and support their growth — not to run a status update. The relational mechanisms (regular contact, voice, support) are well grounded; the specific cadence and format are practitioner craft built on top of them.
9. Create a feedback acknowledgment ritual to close each tracking cycle
   A brief, consistent closing ritual after reviewing behavioral data anchors the feedback loop and prevents it from becoming pure surveillance.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
10. Identify and track your critical numbers
    Find the two or three metrics that, if managed well, predict overall health — and make them visible to everyone.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus

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