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06/19/2026

If someone in your world is making a hire right now, here are two things you can do in 10 minutes.

1. Forward them this issue #09 of Thee Permission Slip - Hire for Results, Not Potential (https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/05/20/hire-for-results-not-potential/)

2. Ask them: what does success in this role look like at 30 days, 60 days, 90 days?

If they can't answer in concrete outcomes, they're not ready to post the job yet.

Both things cost nothing. One might save them six months.

06/18/2026

The broken playbook told us our currency as women who lead was our ability to keep everyone on board.

If the team agreed, we did it right.
If someone was unhappy with a decision, something went wrong.

That currency is buying nothing.

I heard from a client last week who sent her team a clear message after weeks of open conversation. Here's the decision. Here's why. Here's what we need from each of you to make implementation go well.

Two people on her team thanked her for finally making the call.

They'd been waiting.

The fear of disconnection that keeps the process going is almost never proportionate to what actually happens when you step through it.

Miss the issue? Read it here: https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/06/17/are-you-being-collaborative-or-waiting-for-permission-to-lead/

Prefer to listen? It's on The Compassionate Leader School podcast — Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.

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06/17/2026

The old model of collaborative leadership has a problem.

Not because collaboration doesn't work. Genuine collaboration, when you need your team's information, experience, or perspective to make a better decision, is essential. It's a legitimate way to lead.

The problem is that the model got stretched.

Somewhere along the way it became: always involve the team. Always get buy-in. Always make sure everyone feels part of the decision.

And then the broken playbook made sure that using authority directly felt like a liability.

So the model doesn't just describe how to lead.

It describes how to avoid the cost of leading alone.

The question that changes this: Do I need their information, or do I want their permission?

Issue #13 of The Permission Slip is in inboxes now. Read it or listen to it.

Read it: https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/06/17/are-you-being-collaborative-or-waiting-for-permission-to-lead/

Listen to it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kEjizIkhUewP2ncEylVw3

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06/16/2026

There's a woman in this community right now who has been consulting her team on a decision that was hers to make weeks ago.

The team has given their input. Some of them have moved on. She's still gathering.

She thinks she has a team problem.

She doesn't.

She has a decision she hasn't claimed.

She's not doing it wrong. She's doing exactly what the broken playbook told her to do. She’s making sure everyone feels included, making sure no one gets left out, making sure the decision feels shared before she owns it.

The broken playbook counted on that.

Tomorrow in The Permission Slip, I'm writing about what happened when I sat across from a woman like this in a coaching session. And the one question that shifted everything.

That someone might also be you.

Come and join the community of women who lead — reading and listening every Wednesday.

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06/15/2026

I walked into Monica's office for a coaching session and knew before she said a word something had gone sideways.

She ran a small manufacturing company. Her team kept bringing her problems. She kept solving them. Her own work kept waiting.

"It's just easier to do it myself," she said.

The simple act of not answering, of asking instead, changed everything.

Not dramatically. In a 30-minute conversation.

I introduced a framework called the PAR Principle: name the problem precisely, surface every possible course of action, ask for a recommendation.

She started using it with her team the following week.

Six weeks later, her team members were walking in with solutions they'd already implemented. Keeping her in the loop. Stopping by to say: "By the way, we had an issue. I handled it. Just wanted you to know."

Thirty minutes of a different approach. A fundamentally different team dynamic.

Are you the one solving every problem that walks through your door?

If this resonated, Issue #12 of The Permission Slip covers the full picture: https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/06/10/one-of-the-most-expensive-business-decisions-youll-make-is-solving-it-yourself/

06/12/2026

Let's build cultures where people stay because the work is excellent, not because leaving feels like a betrayal.

06/11/2026

What's the problem sitting on your desk right now that belongs to someone on your team?

That's the question at the centre of this week's issue.

Yesterday, a community of women who lead learned why solving every problem your team brings you is the most expensive business decision you'll make.

They also discovered the thirty-minute process for walking someone through their own thinking instead.

Miss the written issue? Grab it here: https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/06/10/one-of-the-most-expensive-business-decisions-youll-make-is-solving-it-yourself/

Prefer to listen? The podcast episode is live on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.
Search: The Compassionate Leader School

A question to reflect on today: What's the last problem you handed back — and what happened when you did?

06/10/2026

"The most expensive business decision you'll make is solving it yourself."

Issue #12 is live.

This week in The Permission Slip:
The PAR Principle — a thirty-minute process for walking your team through their own thinking so they stop leaving their problems on your desk.

Read it: https://debbielawrence.ca/2026/06/10/one-of-the-most-expensive-business-decisions-youll-make-is-solving-it-yourself/
Listen to it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/286EUMMIRWW1h4XaMNINV4

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06/09/2026

She sat across from me in her office, the plant floor twenty feet away, and her own work piling up on her desk.

"I can't get to any of it," she said. "I'm doing theirs."

She wasn't wrong. But the reason wasn't what she thought.

Tomorrow I am sharing why solving every problem your team brings you is the most expensive business decision you'll make and the thirty-minute process that changes it.

Join a community of women leaders who are reading and listening every Wednesday.

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06/08/2026

I’ve been leading for over forty years.

My secret sauce is less patience.

I don’t:
• Soften the message so much that the message disappears
• Tell myself I’ve “addressed it” because I mentioned it once
• Hope the problem resolves before I have to go back in
• Wait for someone to figure it out on their own

Instead:
• I make room in the conversation for the other person to say what’s in the way
• I stay in the loop until we can both clearly see it no longer needs the attention
• I follow up informally: How’s it coming? Anything you want to talk through?
• I name what I’m observing, without judgment and without a verdict

Getting clear on what coaching for performance actually requires changes everything. You stop delivering the same message softer and softer and waiting for a different result.

Are you following the broken playbook’s version of kind? Or building your own?

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