Leadership Alignment: Decision Rights
A practical guide to clarifying who decides what and accelerating your team’s execution velocity.
What you’ll get
This 6-page guide gives you the frameworks and diagnostic tools to clarify decision rights across your leadership team.
- What decision rights are and why ambiguity kills velocity
- 6 common use cases where unclear decision rights cause the most damage
- Where decision rights matter most so you focus effort where it compounds
- 5-question diagnostic to assess your team’s decision clarity quickly
- 10 signs of progress so you know the work is paying off
Who this is for
This guide is designed for:
- CTOs and VPs of Engineering leading growing teams
- COOs and Ops leaders managing cross-functional execution
- CEOs tired of being the bottleneck for every decision
- Any leader experiencing escalation overload
Pattern we see: Most leaders discover 3 to 5 decision types that cause 80 percent of their escalation overhead.
What happens after you download: we send the guide immediately and tag your contact for the Decision Rights follow-up track in GHL.
Preview: What’s Inside
The RAPID Framework
The proven model for clarifying decision authority: who Recommends, Agrees, Performs, provides Input, and Decides. Only one person should have the D for any decision type.
6 Common Use Cases
Where unclear decision rights cause the most damage: headcount, roadmap priorities, budget allocation, cross-functional projects, customer escalations, and technical architecture.
Decision Rights Heat Map
Prioritize which decisions need clarity first. Focus on the 20 percent of decision types that cause 80 percent of the confusion, especially cross-team boundaries and escalation patterns.
5-Question Diagnostic + Scoring
Rate your team’s decision clarity with a quick self-assessment. Includes a numbered scoring scale, total score tally, and interpretation guide.
Want the full leadership diagnosis too?
The Executive Escalation Assessment measures your leadership team across four dimensions in about 8 minutes.
Clarity
Empowerment
Velocity
Bandwidth