THE ARTISANS ACADEMY · SESSION TWO

Stop Being the Decision-Making Bottleneck

A free 45-minute working session for founders who are still the final approval on too much. You will leave with a decision and delegation map that shows exactly what you keep and what your leaders own.

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The problem

You have hired good people. Capable, experienced, well paid.

And yet: "Can you just check this before I send it?" "What do you want to do about the supplier?" "I did not want to make the call without you."

If every decision routes back through you, you do not have a leadership team. You have assistants - and the constraint on your business is not your market or your people. It is your calendar.

Most founders know this. What they do not have is a clear line between the decisions they should keep and the decisions they should have handed over eighteen months ago. That is what we build in this session.

This session is for you if

  • Your team defers decisions they are perfectly capable of making
  • You are approving things you do not need to see
  • Work stalls when you are on leave or in back-to-back meeting
  • You have told people to "just make the call" and it did not stick
  • You are not actually sure which decisions you should be keeping

What you will walk away with 

  • A completed Decision & Delegation Map - four quadrants, with a named owner against each type of decision in your business
  • A clear line between what stays with you and what does not
  • The language to hand a decision over so it actually stays handed over
You complete it during the session. Bring your leadership team if you can - it works better when you build it together.

What we will cover 

  • Why founders hold on, and what it actually costs the business
  • The four decision types: reversible or irreversible, high or low stakes
  • Live: build your delegation map
  • Handing over without losing visibility or control
  • Questions

How it works 

This is a working session, not a webinar.

Twenty minutes of framework, fifteen minutes where you work on your own business, and time for questions. Bring a notepad. Cameras are optional. Chat is open the whole way through.

Forty-five minutes, hard stop. You will get your time back.

About Nicole

Nicole Smith is the Founder and Director of The Artisans Business Solutions, a Melbourne-based fractional COO and business operations consultancy. She works with founders, CEOs and leadership teams to align people, systems, processes and technology — so the business can grow without the founder holding it together.

Confidence to Grow. There is always a way.

Stop Being the Decision-Making Bottleneck

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