Our Customer Success Director is failing their Scorecard numbers every week and missing Rocks, but they insist the seat is structurally impossible for one person to run. How do we objectively diagnose whether the seat is overloaded or if the person simply lacks GWC?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

You diagnose the difference between an overloaded seat and a GWC failure by auditing the five core roles and benchmarking the seat against pure output, not hours worked.

Start by looking at the Accountability Chart. Every seat must have exactly five core roles. If the Customer Success Director seat has accumulated eight or nine distinct responsibilities, including implementation, account renewals, tier-one technical support, and inbound upselling, the seat is structurally flawed. You have created an unrealistic super-seat that sets any leader up for failure.

To test the structure, strip the seat down to its five non-negotiable roles. Move unrelated operational tasks out of the seat and assign them to other functional seats or delegate them down. Once the seat is cleanly bounded, evaluate the person strictly on GWC: Do they Get It? Do they Want It? Do they have the Capacity to do it?

If the seat is cleanly defined with five core roles and the person is still missing their Scorecard measurables and Rock milestones, examine how they manage their time. A leader who lacks Capacity often wastes hours doing frontline transactional work rather than leading, managing, and holding their team accountable (LMA). That is a management failure, not a structural flaw.

Run an IDS session between the Integrator and the seat holder. Review their weekly calendar against their core roles. If an objective, high-performing peer could execute those five roles within a standard work week, the issue is not the seat. The person lacks GWC for the leadership level of that seat. At that point, you either find a capable successor or narrow the seat and lower their compensation accordingly.