Build or find the people who can carry the work you need to offload, so there is genuine capacity to delegate into rather than a wish, and keep building it over time.
The most common reason founders cannot delegate is not unwillingness but a genuine lack of capable capacity to receive the work. For each thing you need to offload, plan the capacity to receive it. Answers stay in your browser.
| Work to offload | Who could take it | What they need to be ready | Develop or hire? |
|---|---|---|---|
If most rows read "nobody yet," your binding issue is capacity, not delegation, and building or hiring it is the real first move. Once capacity exists, the delegation itself runs on the Delegation Plan and the Empowerment Handoff Template. At Step 5, keep developing capacity ahead of need, so each round of delegation has somewhere to land.
Where the gap is developing leaders, that routes to the leadership development work. Where it is a real hiring need, that routes to the hiring and people work.
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