FREE DELEGATION GUIDE
Six leadership decisions to help you design a delegation that works — and recalibrate it as the person, work or circumstances change.

You want people to take greater ownership. But you also know that effective delegation isn't simply a matter of handing over the work and stepping back. If you're navigating that balance, this Guide is for you.
Balancing delivery with the need to build capability and ownership.
Trying to create decision space without becoming the permanent bottleneck.
Supporting stronger delegation, accountability and leadership practice across teams.
Six decisions that help you create the conditions for ownership.

Look beyond the handover itself and identify the leadership judgements that can shape whether delegation succeeds.

Clarify responsibility, authority, expectations and involvement so people have genuine space to own the work.

Recognise when changing capability, risk or circumstances call for an adjustment — without automatically taking the work back.
A practical framework for thinking through the leadership decisions
that shape delegation before, during and after responsibility changes hands.
Effective delegation depends on more than deciding what to delegate and explaining the task.
The Guide takes you through six leadership decisions that help you think about the work, the person, your level of involvement, the authority being transferred, what successful ownership looks like, and how progress will be sustained.
Each decision includes prompts to help you focus on the judgements that matter most in the delegation in front of you.



Effective delegation isn't fixed at the point of handover. Capability develops. Priorities shift. Risk changes. New information emerges.
The six decisions help you establish the delegation — and recalibrate it as the work evolves, without automatically taking ownership back.

Dianne Worrall is a leadership strategist, author and creator of The Accountability Code®, with more than four decades of experience across executive leadership, organisational transformation, strategic HR, board advisory, consulting and coaching.
She is the founder of The Accountability Leadership Academy and author of the multi-award-winning Accountability Leadership and The Personal Accountability Code®, with more than 14,000 books sold internationally.
Her work focuses on helping leaders create greater ownership, clarity and trust — without defaulting to control, blame or unnecessary oversight.
Use the six leadership decisions to think through the delegation before the work changes hands — and recalibrate it as circumstances evolve.
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