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Scale Yourself: Use Systems So You Don’t Become the Bottleneck
7:20Leadership
Scale Yourself & Team Productivity with Systems for Leaders and Documented Processes Stop being the bottleneck using practical productivity systems, SOPs, checklists, and automated workflows for teams. Learn simple steps to turn what’s in your head into scalable systems so your team moves faster without you in every decision.
What You'll Learn:
- Why high-performing leaders quietly become bottlenecks and how to spot the early warning signs in your own calendar, inbox, and meetings.
- A simple process to extract what’s in your head and turn it into documented processes, checklists, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- How to use systems thinking and the Theory of Constraints to identify and fix the single biggest bottleneck slowing down your team.
- Practical ways to design automated workflows for teams so routine tasks, approvals, and updates happen without your constant involvement.
- How to delegate better by pairing clear SOPs with ownership, so people don’t keep coming back with the same questions.
- A lightweight standard operating procedures checklist you can use to document any recurring task in under 15 minutes.
- How to create a personal ";bottleneck audit"; to see where you’re blocking progress and decide what to systematize next.
- Exactly how to pick one small action this week to start scaling yourself, even if you feel too busy to build full systems right now.
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