Diagnostic Product

Decision Rights
Diagnostic Pack

A practical seven-part system for diagnosing authority confusion and rebuilding decision clarity in complex organizations.

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What You Will Produce
6
Scored failure pattern diagnostics
4
Organizational tiers mapped with authority
5
Escalation trigger categories defined
1
Decision Rights Charter ready to use
The Problem

When decision rights are unclear,
delivery slows down

Projects and organizations do not only struggle because of scope, risk, or resourcing. Many struggle because authority is unclear. Decisions escalate too early, governance forums meet without deciding, leaders get pulled into routine calls, and teams are left guessing who actually owns what.

The Decision Rights Diagnostic Pack helps you identify those patterns, map the real authority structure, define escalation conditions, and create a usable charter for governance and delivery work.

Authority Opacity
Roles are defined. Decision rights are not.
Threshold Blindness
Escalation happens by feel, not by rule.
Governance Theatre
Governance exists. Decision authority does not.
Tier Collapse
Executives are deciding what teams should own.
Informal Authority
Real authority is informal, not assigned.
Structural Drift
What was designed has eroded.
What's inside the pack
01
Decision Rights Diagnostic Guide
Sequence, scoring, interpretation, and next steps.
02
Authority Opacity Diagnostic
A scored assessment across six governance failure patterns.
03
Decision Category Map
Identify every decision your organization must make and who currently owns it.
04
Authority Tier Matrix
Assign decision authority to the right organizational tier with defined thresholds.
05
Escalation Trigger Checklist
Define the specific conditions under which a decision moves upward, not judgment calls.
06
Decision Rights Charter Template
A working agreement for authority, escalation, and governance ownership.
07
Healthy Decision Rights Markers
Eight target-state conditions to check whether the authority structure is actually sound.
What you'll walk away with

From authority confusion to
a working structure

By the end of the pack, you will have a complete set of outputs ready for real governance and delivery use, not a workbook to file away.

A scored diagnostic across six decision failure patterns
A mapped authority structure across all four organizational tiers
Calibrated escalation thresholds for five trigger categories
A Decision Rights Charter ready for governance or delivery use
A validated gap assessment against eight target-state conditions
Who this is for

Built for delivery leaders
and transformation practitioners

Project and programme leaders
Transformation leads
Operations and delivery leaders
Teams experiencing escalation overload
Organizations with unclear authority or repeated decision failures
Use this pack when…

Recognise any of these patterns?

Decisions keep escalating upward
Governance meets but does not decide
Teams are unclear who owns what
Leaders are pulled into routine decisions
Authority has become informal or inconsistent
A decision structure once existed but has eroded
Why it's different

More than a
template bundle

This is not a generic governance worksheet pack. It is a structured diagnostic system designed around the specific failure patterns that cause authority confusion in real delivery environments. The frameworks are proprietary. The sequence is intentional. The output is something your organization can actually use.

Proprietary failure pattern framework
Six named failure patterns: Authority Opacity, Threshold Blindness, Governance Theatre, Tier Collapse, Informal Authority, Structural Drift, give the diagnostic a specific point of view, not generic categories.
Ends with a working artifact
The Decision Rights Charter Template is designed to be taken directly into a governance or delivery context. It is not a filing exercise. It is a working agreement.
Calibrated for real organizational complexity
The Authority Tier Matrix and Escalation Trigger Checklist are built for organizations where authority is multi-layered and escalation is genuinely ambiguous, not simple org charts.
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Move from authority confusion
to a working structure

Use the Decision Rights Diagnostic Pack to identify where the authority system is breaking, map the correct structure, and build a charter your organization can actually operate from.

Instant PDF download. Use individually, with a team, or in a working session.

Decision Rights Diagnostic Pack
$27
One-time purchase. Immediate download.
Includes all 7 documents
Decision Rights Diagnostic Guide
Authority Opacity Diagnostic
Decision Category Map
Authority Tier Matrix
Escalation Trigger Checklist
Decision Rights Charter Template
Healthy Decision Rights Markers
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Start with the
Free Quick Check

The Decision Rights Quick Check is a short 5-question diagnostic designed to help you spot early signs of authority and governance friction. If the results show deeper structural issues, the full pack gives you the tools to fix them.

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Five questions. Two minutes. Clear signal.
01Our team knows who can make which decisions without asking upward.
02We have clear criteria for when a decision should escalate.
03Governance forums in our organization actually decide, not just review.
04Leaders are not routinely pulled into routine delivery decisions.
05Authority is formally defined, not dependent on personality or informal influence.
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