The Delegation System
You're not short of time. You're short of things that don't require you. Off My Plate is the complete system for finding out where your hours actually go, deciding what leaves your plate, documenting it in fifteen minutes, and handing it over so it never comes back.
Turn your business into a machine that runs without you doing everything.
A widely reported research figure puts it at 43% of small-business owners naming “wearing so many hats” as the most difficult part of running their business. You don't need a statistic to recognise it — you're living inside it.
You're the marketer, the bookkeeper and the customer service department
Work stops moving the moment you're unavailable for a day
“Quick question —” eleven times a day, and there goes the afternoon
Every process lives in your head, so nothing can be handed over
You delegated something once, it came back badly, and you took it back
You'd document it all, but documenting feels like a project you have no room for
You can't take a real holiday, and haven't for years
Growth just means more of everything lands on you
“If I don't answer the question, approve the task, make the decision or solve the problem, the work stops.”
The 43% figure above is reproduced as reported and has not been independently verified — treat it as an indication of how common the problem is, not as a precise measurement. Every other number on this page and in the book is illustrative, built to demonstrate the method.
Growth is a multiplier — and it multiplies whatever structure you already have. If everything routes through you today, a bigger business is simply a longer queue outside your door.
In an illustrative 7-day audit, only 11 of 38 logged recurring hours genuinely required the owner. The other 27 belonged to someone else, to software, to a process, or to nobody at all.
A six-minute question costs roughly twenty once you count the interruption and the climb back into what you were doing. Eleven a day is most of an afternoon, gone with nothing to show for it.
Six hours a week of admin against an $80 billable rate is roughly $24,000 a year of unbilled capacity. Most owners have never run this arithmetic before deciding they can't afford help.
All three figures are illustrative worked examples built for this book, not measured outcomes or a forecast for your business.
A delegation system, not a delegation ebook. You run a seven-day audit, label every task, score what leaves first, write a one-page SOP in fifteen minutes, hand it over on a six-rung ladder, and measure the result on two proprietary scores. Then you do it again next week, permanently.
Everything a small-business owner needs to work out what should leave their plate, who should own it, and how to hand it over so it stays gone. Works with a team of nine — or with no team at all.
Get Instant Access — $12.99Five stages, run as a loop rather than a one-off project. Simple enough to remember standing in a car park with no notes.
Find out what is actually on your plate — with real hours attached to real tasks.
Sort every task into one of five buckets, and score what should leave first.
Make the task delegatable before you hand it over: a one-page SOP and clear rules.
Right owner, signed brief, stated authority, and a six-rung handoff that ends in release.
Verify it stuck, score your independence, and take one more thing off every week.
Delivered as a single download containing both a PDF and an editable Word document.
The seven beliefs that keep the plate full, the 12-question Owner Dependency Test, and the complete 7-Day Time Reality Audit with a nine-column template.
The five-label Delegation Decision Matrix, the 7–35 Delegation Priority Score, and a Stop-Doing List worked through ten business functions and eight industries.
The Minimum Viable SOP, the nine-part one-page structure, a fully completed example, and the Record It Once method that produces an SOP in fifteen minutes.
The six components of real ownership, the four levels of decision authority, the Delegation Brief, and a Role Selector covering all seven destinations including automation.
The six-rung handoff — Explain, Show, Shadow, Practice, Review, Release — plus decision rules and eight complete decision trees for the situations that interrupt you most.
The 30-Day Delegation Challenge, the Owner Independence Score across ten business areas, and the Before vs After Owner Workload Assessment.
Five worked case studies, the twelve delegation mistakes with fixes, nine ready-to-use conversation scripts, and the 90-Day Owner Freedom Roadmap with measurable targets.
15 fill-in templates and 6 printable checklists, plus the day-by-day 30-Day Implementation Guide, an automation cheat sheet, a glossary and a full FAQ.
Every framework in the book produces something written down that you can act on the same day.
Illustrative figures. You score your own tasks on the seven factors in Template 2.
Illustrative figures. Five bands, one clear next move each — deliberately simple.
Works With No Staff and No Budget
Every Chapter Ends With One Thing to Remove
No Consultants, No Software Required
SOPs You Can Write in 15 Minutes
Two Proprietary Scores, Measured Three Times
Every Figure Labelled Illustrative or Sourced
No Income Promises, Anywhere
Editable Word Version Included
One-Time Purchase, Lifetime Access
Whether you have nine employees, one contractor, or nobody at all — five of the seven delegation destinations in Chapter 8 require no staff whatsoever.
And in between: “I know exactly what needs to leave my plate, who should own it, and how to hand it off.”
And considerably less than one week of the hours you're currently giving away for free.
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Get Off My Plate — $12.99The individual amounts above are our own estimated standalone values for each component, provided to show how the system is composed. They are not objective market prices, not a comparison with any named competitor's product, and nothing was ever sold separately at those prices. The only price that applies is $45.
Day-by-day actions for four weeks — audit, systemize, delegate, optimize — with the output you should have at the end of each day and corrective actions for what fails.
Complaints, refunds, scheduling, purchasing, discounts, missed deadlines, employee issues and supplier problems — with thresholds you can adopt or adjust.
Word-for-word conversations for delegating, setting expectations, correcting execution, giving autonomy, and transferring a recurring responsibility for good.
A restaurant, a cleaning company, a marketing agency, a retail shop and a solo consultant — each traced from Before through Problem, SOP and Handoff to After.
The nine things small businesses most commonly automate first, the category of tool for each, typical monthly cost, and the hours usually reclaimed.
The PLATE Method flow, the five-destination routing map, the six-rung handoff ladder, the audit split and the 90-day results arc — designed, not decorative.
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You need to get more of the right things off your plate. Start with the audit tomorrow morning — and by day 90 find out how many days you can actually be away.
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