The job has changed. Has the way you work changed with it?
As responsibility, complexity and expectations grow, the way you work often needs to change too.
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Credentials:
The challenge is that the approach that got you here may still be working. You are still delivering. Still solving problems. Still getting results. But it may be becoming increasingly expensive.
Too much still depends on you. Your team could take greater ownership. Important decisions continue to find their way back to you. Delivery crowds out the thinking, leadership and strategic work your role now requires.
When the old way still works — but no longer works well enough
This isn't necessarily a performance problem.
In fact, it often happens precisely because you're capable.
The expertise, responsiveness, high standards and willingness to take ownership that helped you succeed can become harder to sustain as your remit grows.
The question is no longer simply whether you can keep doing it.
It's whether this is still the most effective way to operate in the role you now have.
You may recognise some of these patterns:
- You're still involved in decisions that could increasingly be made without you.
- Your team brings you problems they could be better equipped to solve themselves.
- You know you need to step further away from delivery, but doing so is harder in practice than in theory.
- Your attention is fragmented across too many things.
- The strategic work that only you can do is repeatedly displaced by the immediate.
- Working harder still gets results — but increasingly at a cost.
If some of that feels familiar, it may be worth examining what needs to change.
A focused 30-minute conversation
The Leadership Transition Conversation is an opportunity to step outside the day-to-day and look at how your role has changed, how you're currently operating within it, and where there may now be a mismatch between the two.
We'll explore:
What's changed
How your role, responsibilities or organisational context have evolved.
What's becoming expensive
Where your current approach may be creating unnecessary dependency, consuming capacity or limiting the contribution of others.
What needs to change
What operating differently could look like over the next 90 days.
This isn't a coaching session disguised as a sales call.
It's a focused conversation to understand what's happening and determine what, if anything, would be useful to do next.
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About Tom MacCormick
I'm an executive coach specialising in leadership performance and behaviour change.
I work with capable senior leaders whose responsibilities have grown or materially changed, helping them adapt how they operate so they can create greater ownership around them, reduce unnecessary dependency and focus more of their attention on the work their role now requires.
My approach combines executive coaching with a background in performance science and behaviour change, and is informed by my work with senior leaders operating in demanding professional environments.
30 minutes. No obligation. If I believe I can help, I'll explain what working together could look like. If I don't, I'll say so.