- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Time
- 30–45 min
Find the leverage point
Choose a team whose progress was constrained by a repeated decision, missing capability, or coordination cost. Describe the constraint and the evidence that it mattered more than simply working faster yourself.
What to demonstrate: Is the bottleneck connected to team output rather than personal inconvenience?
Change the system
Explain the mechanism you introduced: for example, a review practice, ownership boundary, tool, teaching loop, or decision record. State who helped design it and who owned it after launch.
What to demonstrate: Did you create durable capability without claiming other people’s work?
Measure second-order impact
Provide evidence about decision quality, cycle time, incidents, onboarding, or independent ownership. Include one expected improvement that did not appear.
What to demonstrate: Does the evidence show team leverage rather than only your direct output?
Test the leadership trade-off
Describe what individual work you gave up, where the intervention risked becoming process overhead, and how you would adapt it for a smaller or more senior team.
What to demonstrate: Can you explain when your leadership mechanism would be the wrong tool?