How to create a sense of urgency without micromanaging

Creating a sense of urgency on your team starts with the ask. When employees don’t follow through, the handoff was usually missing something. You ask for the client email, the deck, or the vendor follow-up, they say “on it,” and a day later you’re doing it yourself and wondering if anyone cares. In this episode, Lia breaks down the three pieces of a handoff that turn “on it” into ownership: a deadline, the reason behind it, and a two-minute check that it’s doable.

In this episode you will learn:

Why “on it” is an incomplete handoff, and how to fix it inside the ask

How to put a deadline on a request without it feeling like micromanaging

How to share context so the deadline matters to your team member, even when the reason is your own workload

The questions that get your employee to own the urgency and flag risks early

How to tell a delegation problem from a performance problem

Resources mentioned:

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