With her company on the brink of disaster, a leader hungrily tackles the art of delegation, learning three models on the way.

The episode frames delegation as being primarily about getting your people ready.

To get people ready, screen each delegated task against three filters:

1. Skills & Will – do people need training or coaching?
2. Control – who has it and how much?
3. Measurement – what is each person’s responsibility?

Our latest Tool has all three filters. Download it for free here.

Want to strengthen your ability to talk with people about their growth and development? Listen to these episodes:

#262 – How to Grow Your People – December 2025

#212 – How to Coach Your People – October 2021

#132 – Coaching Your People – April 2015

Ready to try the Responsibility Charting exercise with your team?

Listen to the episode here.

Download the Charting tool here.

Curious about coaching? Reach out to Tom here.

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Related Library Categories:

Leadership

Management Skills

Communication Skills

Related Episodes

132 - Coaching Your People

119 - Creating Devoted Followers

254 How to Talk so People Understand You

155 - The Human Element

123 - Leadership Through Delegation

A transcript of the episode is here.

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A chief officer finds himself repeatedly triggered by a peer. Afraid he’s going to say or do something he’ll regret, he asks his coach for tools.

Three categories of self-regulation tools:

1. Physical
2. Internal
3. External

A visual tool with specific tools in each category is in our Tool bin.

Ready for coaching? Reach out to Tom here.

There are always more resources in our monthly email.

Hear Tom’s most recent conversation on the Beyond Potential podcast here.

Related Library Categories:

Managing Yourself

Perception – How You Perceive Yourself

Self-Talk

Related Episodes

216 - 7 Steps to Stop Emotional Hijacks

109 - Building Emotional Intelligence

22 - Negative Self-Talk

171 - Taming the Wild Child – one of my favorites

96 - The Many Parts of You

A transcript of the episode is here.

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A brilliant but rather shy leader is challenged by her management to be bigger, more executive, speak up more. She is grateful to work with a coach.

You can build muscle around getting your voice heard by creating homework for yourself. Think of it like going to the gym: working out regularly helps you build muscle.

When creating homework, ask yourself three questions:

1. What am I going to pay attention to?
2. What specific behavior am I going to start or stop?
3. How will I measure success? (5% improvement)

During the episode, Tom gave Neela four pieces of homework to help her get her voice heard:

1. Count the number of times you have an idea and choose not to say it out loud;
2. Listen for your self-limiting beliefs. Look for patterns that trigger them. Who are you with? What’s the setting?
3. In meetings, speak in the first ten minutes;
4. In meetings, get your name “on the record” with regularity.

Curious about coaching? Reach out to Tom here.

There are always more resources in our monthly email.

Related Library Categories:

Developing New Behaviors

Executive Presence

For Women

Related Episodes

• 211 - How to Show Up
• 153 - Inhabiting Executive Presence
• 69 - Leadership and Self-Deception
• 103 - Self-Awareness & Self-Management
• 154 - Self-Limiting Beliefs

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