Coaching practices for Everything Still Routes Through Me They Bring Me Every Question and I Hand Back Every Answer and Instead of a Team That Needs Me More Each Month I Want One That Can Stand on Its Own but I Don't Know How to Let Go of the Decisions

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• Everything still routes through me
• My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority
• Everyone brings their problems to me to solve, I jump in and fix each one, and now I’m the bottleneck for everything while my people never grow
• The moment someone brings me a problem the answer is already on my lips and I just hand it over
• My team keeps bringing me bare problems and looking at me to solve them, so I end up doing all the thinking

Practices that may help

1. Build people’s autonomy and capability
   The aim is people who need you less over time, not more.
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
2. Break the advice-dependency loop
   When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
3. Give the work back without abandoning people
   Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
4. Stay curious one beat longer before advising
   Resist the urge to give the answer for one more question — ask what they think first.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
5. Push recommendations up, not problems
   Require reports to bring a recommendation alongside any problem — it’s a delegation practice, not just a time-saver.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
6. Transfer authority with the responsibility
   Give people the decision rights and resources the task actually requires.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
7. Identify and exit contagious time traps
   Some commitments multiply — each yes generates three new asks — and identifying them is the first line of defense.
   Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
8. Resist upward (reverse) delegation
   Don’t let the task you delegated jump back onto your desk the first time it gets hard.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
9. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
10. 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

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