delegation Archives - Raw Signal Group

What to do about time goblins

January 8, 2025

The core theory any time any organization hires anyone — employee, intern, contractor, law firm, outside agency — is leverage.

When someone tells you there are only two types of leaders

September 18, 2024

The number one rule of leadership development is that there’s no growth without reflection. So come sit a spell and let’s reflect. How’s that two-shapes-of-humans theory actually playing out?

Announced on Sunday, handed off on Sunday

July 24, 2024

The path to better succession planning starts with taking a moment to reflect.

If you’re doing their job, who’s doing your job?

April 17, 2024

The cure for a structurally overwhelmed team is a better structure. It’s clarity about what matters most, and permission to hand off or put down the work that doesn’t.

Let us feed you

September 21, 2022

Delegation fails at work when the hand-off is incomplete, and also when the hand-off is too complete. And once you know that, you can get better at this fast.

Hello from the basement

July 27, 2022

One of us has COVID and so far, thanks in large part to the basement (and boosters! and masking! and updated rapid test procedures!), no one else in the house does.

The buzzing noise from the hotel closet

July 13, 2022

Vacations are a cross-training opportunity. They are a sponsorship opportunity. They are resilience and succession planning and visibility opportunities for your team. You just have to see them for what they are.

The unloved doc with all the answers

June 1, 2022

The org chart is a power map. Not figuratively. Literally. It is a map of relationships, reporting structure, and accountability lines. When we talk about issues being structural, this is where that structure shows up.