Our customer service director definitely gets the seat and wants the seat, but their capacity has cratered because our transaction volume doubled this year. How do we use Delegate and Elevate to fix a GWC capacity issue before assuming we have the wrong person in the seat?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When a previously solid leader begins missing Scorecard numbers and dropping Rocks, owners often rush to assume the person has outgrown the company. However, if they still share your core values, get the seat, and genuinely want the seat, their failure is almost always a Capacity breakdown caused by administrative clutter.

Before you make a rash termination call, run the Delegate and Elevate exercise with them. Over time, as transaction volume scales, high-performing leaders accumulate low-value tasks that bury their calendar. Their seat becomes an unmanageable collection of fire-fighting duties, customer escalations, and manual data entry.

Have the leader audit their time over the past thirty days and map every activity into four quadrants:

- Love and have great capacity for
- Like and have good capacity for
- Dislike but have capacity for
- Dislike and have zero capacity for

Strip away everything in the bottom two quadrants. Automate routine manual reporting using basic software or AI integrations. Move administrative coordination to lower-cost support seats or assistants. Narrow their focus strictly back to the five core roles defined on their Accountability Chart box.

If clearing eighty percent of the administrative drag restores their focus and results, you solved the capacity gap without losing a trusted culture carrier. If their capacity remains underwater after three months of targeted delegation, then you know the seat has permanently outscaled their ability.