Coaching practices for Raci R vs a

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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. 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.
3. 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
4. Assign exactly one Accountable per decision
   Every decision or deliverable must have exactly one A — not zero, not two.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
5. 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   A RACI built at kickoff and never updated is out of date the moment the first change happens.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
6. 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
7. Apply the double-standard check: would I accept this reasoning if it pointed the other way?
   Test whether you are holding your team’s arguments to a lower bar than the other side’s.
   The Scout Mindset
8. Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain
   I’s are one-way — they receive information; the cost of surprising them is always higher than the cost of telling them.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
9. Correct for “identified victim” over-weighting
   Recognizing that vivid individual stories feel more compelling than identical statistics helps you allocate attention and resources more rationally.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
10. Include a trusted other in high-stakes AARs
    Self-conducted AARs have blind spots; a peer or coach who was not inside the event sees the causal story differently.
    After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning

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