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You hired someone. Why is it all still coming back to you?
There’s a particular feeling that turns up about six months after you make the hire you’d been putting off. The admin’s handled, the inbox is under control, and somehow the decisions still land on your desk and the client still asks for you. You start to wonder if you’re the one who can’t let go. You’re not. Shona Joy had a CEO for nine years and it still needed its founder in Sydney. The hire didn’t fail, it just wasn’t pointed at the part that’s actually holding you. Here are the six questions that find it.
How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Own Business
You want a week where you can think. Here's how to get Monday morning back: clarity on who owns the work, and clarity on how far your team can take it before they need you. A RACI and a traffic light system, both buildable in an afternoon.
How Do I Empower My Team to Make Decisions Without Me?
"Where do I find this?" "Am I able to do this?" "Is it okay if…?" If four of those have landed on you before 10am, your team isn't incapable, nobody has told them where their authority ends. Here's how to fix it in twenty minutes.