A practical seven-part system for delivery leaders dealing with authority confusion, escalation overload, or recurring decision failures. Score your organization. Map the structure. Build a working charter.
Instant access. PDF + Excel workbook. Use independently or in a group session.
By the end of the pack, you'll have a complete set of governance artifacts ready for real delivery or organizational use.
A total score from 6–30 across six governance failure patterns, with specific guidance based on where you land and which patterns are active.
Every significant decision category assigned to the correct tier with a named owner and a gap analysis showing exactly where authority is misaligned.
Specific, defined conditions, financial, scope, risk, stakeholder, deadlock, that trigger escalation. No more escalation by feel.
A single shareable document consolidating authority, escalation conditions, and governance forum ownership, ready to put in front of your steering committee.
When decisions keep escalating upward, when governance meets but doesn't decide, when everyone's waiting for someone else to make the call: the problem isn't people. It's structure. Specifically, it's the absence of a clearly designed decision authority system.
This pack diagnoses which of six structural failure patterns is active in your organization and gives you the tools to fix it.
Get the Pack, $27 →Roles are defined. Decision rights are not. People know their title but not what they can actually decide.
Escalation happens by feel, not by rule. No defined conditions for when a decision must move upward.
Governance forums meet regularly but rarely decide in session. Authority flows around them, not through them.
Executives are deciding what working teams should own. The escalation path is effectively one level.
Real decision power is understood informally but not formally assigned. The org chart doesn't match reality.
An authority structure existed but has eroded. What was once explicit is now assumed or renegotiated.
Each document builds on the previous. Work through all seven in sequence, independently or as a structured group session.
Sequence, scoring interpretation, and next steps. Orients you before you start and tells you what to do with your results.
30 statements across six failure patterns. Produces a scored profile from 6–30 that tells you where authority is breaking down and how severely.
Name every significant decision your project or organization must make, identify the current owner, and locate the authority gaps between where decisions sit now and where they should.
Assign every decision to the correct organizational tier, Working, Management, Executive, or Governance, with named owners and defined escalation thresholds for each.
Define specific, verifiable conditions, financial, scope, stakeholder, risk, deadlock, that move decisions upward. Replaces escalation by judgment with escalation by rule.
A single shareable document consolidating your authority structure, escalation conditions, and governance forum ownership. Short enough to be read. Specific enough to be used.
Eight target-state conditions to verify whether your authority system is structurally sound. Use after completing the pack to identify what still needs attention.
This pack is most useful when authority confusion is active, not as a theoretical exercise, but because decision failures are already visible in how work gets done.
The Authority Opacity Diagnostic, Document 02 of 7, is available as a free standalone download. It gives you the scored assessment across all six failure patterns and tells you exactly where to focus first.
If the diagnostic reveals significant gaps, the remaining six documents give you the tools to close them.
Download Document 02 Free30 rated statements. Produces a scored profile across all six failure patterns with interpretation guide.
Six yes/no questions. Instant result. No email required, just an honest read on whether the Decision Rights Diagnostic Pack is the right tool for where you are.
Your answers suggest your decision authority structure is reasonably intact. You may have specific gaps, one or two decision categories where ownership is unclear but the overall system isn't broken. The Authority Opacity Diagnostic can help you pinpoint exactly where those gaps are before they become a problem.
← Retake the checkYour answers indicate several authority gaps are already producing friction, decisions taking longer than they should, escalation patterns that feel off, governance that meets without deciding. The Authority Opacity Diagnostic will score exactly which failure patterns are active. The full pack gives you the tools to close them.
← Retake the checkYour answers point to a structural authority problem, authority is unclear, informal, or significantly eroded across multiple dimensions. This isn't a one-off issue. The Decision Rights Diagnostic Pack was built for exactly this situation: diagnosing which failure patterns are driving the breakdown and giving you the tools to rebuild decision clarity from the ground up.
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Seven documents. One working system. Use it independently or run it as a structured session with your team or steering committee. The outputs are real governance artifacts, not a workbook to file away.