During our first Accountability Chart session, we realized we have several leadership team members wearing multiple hats and occupying fractional seats. How do we roll out the Accountability Chart without causing confusion over who owns which metrics on our Scorecard?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Wearing multiple hats is normal in growing businesses, but it becomes a major bottleneck when people do not separate their seats. When a single person occupies more than one seat on the Accountability Chart, they must treat those seats as completely separate roles with distinct responsibilities and different Scorecard metrics.

The solution is to be absolutely rigorous about seat ownership during your weekly Level 10 Meeting™. If a leader is both the Visionary and the head of marketing, they must wear the marketing hat when discussing marketing metrics, and the Visionary hat when discussing long term relationships. When you review your weekly Scorecard, every metric must be assigned to a specific seat, not a specific person. If a number is red, the person occupying that seat is accountable for explaining why and putting it on the Issues List for the team to IDS®.

This clarity prevents people from hiding behind their multiple roles. You cannot allow someone to excuse a missed marketing metric because they were busy doing Visionary work. By keeping the seats and their metrics distinct, you highlight capacity issues and make it obvious when a fractional seat has grown into a full-time job. This data tells you exactly where you need to hire next to free up your leadership team to focus on their primary strengths.