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The Leadership Load Audit
What are you carrying because leadership requires it and what are you carrying because you always have?
Leadership load isn't limited to the number of meetings on your calendar or tasks on your list.
It can also include the decisions you continue to retain, problems that automatically escalate to you, emotional responsibility for others, work you routinely redo, unnecessary approvals, unresolved conversations, after-hours obligations, and responsibilities that remain yours simply because you've demonstrated that you can handle them.
The Leadership Load Audit is a focused leadership capacity tool designed to help you identify what genuinely requires your leadership and what may be consuming capacity unnecessarily.
Through a structured series of exercises, you'll inventory what you're carrying and sort those responsibilities into four critical categories:
Only I Can Own
I Should Oversee
Someone Else Can Own
No Longer Necessary
You'll then examine the responsibilities creating the greatest friction, consider the real cost of continuing to carry them, and identify where greater clarity, delegation, boundaries, recovery, or role recalibration may be needed.
Inside the Audit
Leadership Load Inventory
Responsibility and ownership analysis
Capacity and energy review
Delegation and oversight assessment
Hidden-cost reflection
Protect / Reduce / Delegate / Resolve / Recover / Recalibrate framework
7-Day Leadership Load Reset
Leadership capacity reflection
Fillable fields that allow you to complete and save your responses digitally
This isn't an exercise in doing less for the sake of doing less.
It's an opportunity to become more deliberate about what deserves your leadership capacity in the first place.
The Leadership Load Audit is an educational leadership-development and self-reflection resource. It is not a psychological test, clinical assessment, diagnosis, or substitute for medical or mental-health care.
Interactive Digital PDF: Download the PDF and type directly into the designated fields. Save your responses and return to your assessment as many times as you’d like. For the best experience, use Adobe Acrobat Reader.
What are you carrying because leadership requires it and what are you carrying because you always have?
Leadership load isn't limited to the number of meetings on your calendar or tasks on your list.
It can also include the decisions you continue to retain, problems that automatically escalate to you, emotional responsibility for others, work you routinely redo, unnecessary approvals, unresolved conversations, after-hours obligations, and responsibilities that remain yours simply because you've demonstrated that you can handle them.
The Leadership Load Audit is a focused leadership capacity tool designed to help you identify what genuinely requires your leadership and what may be consuming capacity unnecessarily.
Through a structured series of exercises, you'll inventory what you're carrying and sort those responsibilities into four critical categories:
Only I Can Own
I Should Oversee
Someone Else Can Own
No Longer Necessary
You'll then examine the responsibilities creating the greatest friction, consider the real cost of continuing to carry them, and identify where greater clarity, delegation, boundaries, recovery, or role recalibration may be needed.
Inside the Audit
Leadership Load Inventory
Responsibility and ownership analysis
Capacity and energy review
Delegation and oversight assessment
Hidden-cost reflection
Protect / Reduce / Delegate / Resolve / Recover / Recalibrate framework
7-Day Leadership Load Reset
Leadership capacity reflection
Fillable fields that allow you to complete and save your responses digitally
This isn't an exercise in doing less for the sake of doing less.
It's an opportunity to become more deliberate about what deserves your leadership capacity in the first place.
The Leadership Load Audit is an educational leadership-development and self-reflection resource. It is not a psychological test, clinical assessment, diagnosis, or substitute for medical or mental-health care.
Interactive Digital PDF: Download the PDF and type directly into the designated fields. Save your responses and return to your assessment as many times as you’d like. For the best experience, use Adobe Acrobat Reader.