Your agency feels heavier than it should.

You have capable people.
Work is getting done.
But somehow, everything still routes through you.

That’s not a motivation issue.
It’s not a talent issue.
It’s an accountability issue.

After nearly 100 podcast episodes and conversations with 100+ agency owners, one pattern keeps showing up:

Only about 1 in 10 agencies has a real system for managing their team.

Most are managing tasks, not outcomes.

Here’s the reframe:
If you hire people to complete tasks, you’ll always own the results.
If you make people accountable for outcomes, ownership finally leaves your shoulders.

What this episode breaks down clearly

3️⃣ Agencies are people businesses
If your people process is weak, everything else eventually cracks, delivery, client trust, morale.

2️⃣ Tasks create compliance, not ownership
Job descriptions full of tasks train your team to wait for direction instead of owning results.

1️⃣ Systematized accountability is the unlock
Role scorecards, visible metrics, and agreed data sources remove emotion and guesswork from performance.

The Fix (start this week):

  • Define a role scorecard for one key role: mission + outcomes (not tasks).

  • Agree on the exact data source for each metric.

  • Have the team members report their own numbers weekly before you ask.

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– Sean

P.S. If you don’t build systematized accountability, you will always be the bottleneck. Long term, the agency doesn’t survive that.