Coaching practices for Role Clarity Management

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

• 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
• My team and I keep ending up at cross purposes
• My team only ever gets the leftover scraps from me, and it shows
• I handed this to "the team" without naming one clear owner, and now everyone assumes someone else has it
• Every single one-on-one we only ever talk about this week’s deliverables, and we never once zoom out to where they’re headed

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. One-minute goals: write them short enough to re-read in a minute
   A goal that cannot be stated on a single page is too vague to be evaluated or acted on.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
3. Use delegation as a development tool
   Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
4. 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
5. Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
   Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
   Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
8. 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
9. 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
10. Assign exactly one Accountable per decision
    Every decision or deliverable must have exactly one A — not zero, not two.
    The RACI Matrix, Made Practical

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