If your team needs you for every decision, you don’t have a team.
Instead, you have people waiting. Waiting for you to answer. Waiting for you to look at something. Waiting for you to be free.
You probably didn’t mean for it to turn into this. It just kind of did. You made a few calls early on. You checked a few things. You stepped in a few times because it was faster. Then it kept going. And now nothing really moves unless you’re part of it.
So things start stacking up. Decisions sit there. Approvals sit there. Work gets handed off, comes back, sits there again.
In most small companies, it all ends up circling the founder. You.
Delegation turns into this weird loop. You hand something off. It comes back. You fix it. You send it out again. It comes back again. The work doesn’t really go anywhere. It just keeps landing back on you.
So, what do you do?
You look at how you delegate.
This short diagnostic shows you why work keeps coming back to you, and what usually fixes it.