Every time you say “I’ll just handle it,” you think you’re saving 10 minutes. You’re actually teaching your team that ownership lives on your desk, and 10 hours a week at $350 an hour adds up to $175,000 of attorney capacity a year.
In this episode, Molly breaks down owner dependency, the loop that sends every decision back to the attorney when Q4 pressure rises, and why your team keeps asking permission for work they were hired to own.
Quote for the Show: “If everything comes back to you when the pressure goes up, you have not built a team.” – Molly McGrath
Takeaways:
- Why saying I’ll just handle it or just CC me teaches your team that ownership lives on your desk
- How to run the leadership leak math: hours a week times your hourly rate times 50 weeks
- What changes when your client success coordinator joins the last 10 minutes of every client meeting
- The 5 levels of delegation: do what I say, research and report, recommend then act, act and report, full ownership
- The one question your team can ask: does that require you, or can I 80% that for you
- Why owner dependency under Q4 pressure leaves you with support staff instead of a scalable, sellable practice
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