It’s the top of Q3, and the departmental budget for next year is coming due.

Your new Marketing Director has little experience constructing budgets that align with enterprise strategy.

You could take it on yourself. It would be faster, more precise, and certainly less taxing than navigating the iterative back-and-forth of guiding someone through the process.

But you don’t. Because your responsibility is not to deliver the work, it’s to develop the leader who will.