Phase One: DOING

• You’re still DOING the majority of the time.
• You’re spending your days executing tasks + projects.
• You may even have team members, but without you continuing to do the actual work, the business wouldn’t survive.
• You’re essential to the day-to-day operation and quite frankly there wouldn’t be a business without you there everyday making it happen.

Phase Two: Deciding

• You spend a lot of time answering questions, approving, reviewing + giving feedback to team members.
• You thought having team members would free you up, but at this point all it’s done is bog you down.
• You often feel like you’ve answered lots of questions + made 407 decisions at the end of the day.
• You’re exhausted & often feel like you never have time to get any of your own work done.

Phase Three: Delegating

• You spend a good chunk of your time training, elevating + mentoring the team to make sure they are able to be autonomous in their roles.
• You’re working on getting team members to a place where they can operate without you.
• Your team members know exactly what to do to achieve the outcomes they’re responsible for and don’t need your approval to make decisions.
• Your team members can make decisions without involving you.
• They’re experts in their roles and quite honestly they can do the doing even better than you!

Phase Four: Designing

• You spend the majority of your time in the visionary seat of your business.
• You have tons of time to strategize, dream up the bigger picture and have lots of SPACE within your work days and weeks.
• You’re no longer involved in the day-to-day operation and the business actually grows without your involvement each + every day.