Week 3 worksheets
1. The delegation audit (evidence artifact, part 1)
Started in activity 1 (delegation audit), finished as half of this week's take-home. List 3 things you are hoarding: work you keep even though someone else could do it 80 percent as well. For each one, write the honest reason. The reasons cluster into four fears: job security, speed, quality, trust. Pick the one that is actually true, not the one that sounds best.
| What I am hoarding | Who could do it 80 percent as well | The honest reason (job security / speed / quality / trust) |
|---|---|---|
For your top handoff candidate, the TRM check from board zone 2:
- The task: _______________________________________________
- The person: _______________________________________________
- Their TRM on this specific task (circle one): low / medium / high
- The delegation level I will say out loud (circle one): collect the data / recommend a decision / decide and inform me
2. The dead-proposal postmortem (evidence artifact, part 2)
This week's take-home, done solo. Pick one proposal of yours that failed: an RFC, a migration, a reorg, a headcount ask, a process change.
- The proposal, in one line: _______________________________________________
- What happened to it (be specific: rejected in a meeting, endless discussion, silence):
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
- Be honest: did they reject the idea, or had they never accepted you? Circle one: they rejected the idea / they had not accepted me / I still do not know
- The who-then-why check. Before you pushed the proposal, had the key people accepted you as the messenger? Name the approver: __________________. Number of private conversations you had before the meeting: __
- What the who-then-why order says you should have done first (3 lines):
1. _______________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________ 3. _______________________________________________
Counts as done: both lists submitted (the 3 hoarded items with their honest reasons from worksheet 1, and this postmortem), by Thursday 6:00 PM, before session 4. Reflection without the artifact counts as not done.
3. The SCQA worksheet
Started in activity 2 (write your SCQA). Pick one initiative you need support on right now. Draft the parts, then compress them into the two sentences you would use with your manager's manager.
- Situation (where things stand): _______________________________________________
- Complication (what broke or changed, why now): _______________________________________________
- Question (the decision on the table): _______________________________________________
- Answer (your ask: approve, fund, or unblock what?): _______________________________________________
The two sentences:
- Sentence 1 (situation + complication): _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
- Sentence 2 (the answer, your ask): _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Partner check (circle one): a busy executive would keep reading after sentence one: yes / no
Nemawashi count: private conversations I will have about this initiative before the next meeting: __ (zero is a plan to fail). Who first? __________________
4. Mentorship booking note
The booking window opens tonight and closes at your day-30 reassessment, 30 days after your experiment start date. One 60-minute 1:1 with Mostafa per participant, booked through the unlisted Zcal link shared in the cohort group.
The fixed agenda: 10 minutes your context, 30 minutes pressure-testing your 30-day experiment plan, 15 minutes one career question of your choice, 5 minutes next step.
- My booking date and time: __________________
- The career question I want to bring: _______________________________________________
Tip: if you book after session 4, your capstone draft will exist and the pressure-test is much more useful. Book the slot now, pick a date after you draft.