The Author Delegation Decision Tool

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Your time matters. So does your sanity.

Should you keep doing that task yourself? Hand it off to someone else? Automate it? Or stop doing it altogether?

Running an author business means doing far more than writing books—and eventually, the sheer number of tasks can become overwhelming.

But deciding what to take off your plate isn’t always as simple as asking, “Could someone else do this?”

The Author Delegation Decision Tool helps you evaluate your recurring business tasks using more than time alone. This interactive Excel workbook considers business value, time commitment, ease of delegation, automation potential, how much the task actually needs you—and how you feel about doing it.

Because a task that takes 30 minutes but ruins your entire afternoon has a cost, too.

What the workbook helps you evaluate

Enter up to 25 recurring author-business tasks and assess each one based on:

• How often you do it
• How much time it takes
• Business value
• Whether it genuinely requires your personal involvement
• How easily it could be taught or delegated
• Automation potential
• How much you enjoy—or hate—doing it
• Mental and emotional cost

The workbook then automatically recommends one of four paths:

KEEP — This work may genuinely benefit from your involvement or be worth keeping on your plate.

DELEGATE — Someone else may be able to handle this work without sacrificing the value you need from it.

AUTOMATE — The task may be repetitive or rules-based enough to remove through automation.

REDUCE / ELIMINATE — The task may simply not provide enough value to justify the time and energy it consumes.

Find your best delegation opportunities

The workbook doesn’t stop with individual recommendations.

It also calculates your monthly workload, potential hours you could reclaim, personal-cost and delegation scores, and automatically identifies your Top 5 Delegation Priorities.

That means you don’t have to look at a list of 25 tasks and wonder where to begin.

Because personal cost counts

Traditional productivity advice often treats every hour as identical.

It isn’t.

Maybe creating graphics takes three hours, but you love doing it.

Maybe formatting your newsletter only takes an hour, but you dread it for two days, procrastinate on it, and lose your writing momentum every time it comes around.

Those differences matter.

The goal isn’t to outsource as much of your business as possible.

The goal is to build a profitable author business you actually want to operate.

Format: Interactive Microsoft Excel workbook (.xlsx)