Why Delegated Work Keeps Landing Back on the CHRO, and How HR Leadership Hands Over the Decision

About this episode

The episode discusses why strong HR leaders often return decisions to CHROs and how to effectively delegate accountability and decision rights.

Why are you still doing second drafts at 11 at night on work you handed off months ago? When your job got bigger, you told your team what mattered now. They heard you, and they reprioritized. But a priority is a ranking of work that already exists, and it carries no decisions. So the work comes back as a question, a document that needs one more pass, or a call framed so all you have to do is say yes. In this episode, Jackson and Scott break down how to move the decision, not just the work. ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jackson O. Lynch, Scott Morris

Topics covered

• HR leadership
• decision making
• accountability
• capacity building
• bottlenecks

Keywords

• HR leaders
• decision rights
• capacity
• accountability
• bottleneck
• responsibility

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HR Leadership, CHRO

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