The Costly Leadership Load No One Talks About
A 3-part video series for capable leaders who feel overloaded - and can’t quite explain why
Everyone leans on you,
because they're operating inside a work system that trains them to.
It shows up like this:
- decisions that “should be simple” landing on your desk
- work that needs clarifying even though it should already be clear
- solving the same problems in slightly different ways
- being the person who keeps things moving… again
Here’s the part most leaders miss….
They are stuck in a system that allows everyone to depend on them.
It rewards responsiveness.
It frowns at delays.
It praises the leader who “always knows.”
And then it acts surprised when leaders are overloaded and teams don’t step up.
It’s an outdated and ineffective operating model issue.
Leadership feels heavy because the work flows to where certainty lives.
When the load stays invisible,
the organisation slows everywhere else.
This video series shows you how to change that.
Over three short videos, you’ll see:
- What you’re carrying that you shouldn’t be
- Why effort, tools, and better time management haven’t changed it
- The structural shift that moves you from reactive to strategic — without adding more work
This is practical.
Immediately usable.
No theory for theory’s sake.
By the end, you’ll be able to answer three questions most leaders can’t answer clearly:
1. What exactly am I carrying that I shouldn’t be?
2. Why does this keep repeating, even when I’m “on top of it”?
3. What changes when I lead differently so the team steps up?
You won’t just understand the problem.
You’ll know exactly where to start.
What's Inside
VIDEO ONE
The Unseen Leadership Load
Most leaders are doing far more than their job description because the work flows to where certainty lives.
In this video, you’ll do one simple exercise that makes what’s ‘not working’ in your week impossible to unsee.
You’ll discover:
-the hidden workload you’ve normalised (and what it’s costing your attention)
- the difference between “supporting” and “rescuing”
- why your team’s capability often stalls when your load stays invisible
- the real reason you keep feeling “one step behind” even when you’re working hard
You’ll finish Video 1 thinking:
“Okay. That explains a lot.”
The next question becomes obvious:
Why does it keep happening?
And we answer that in Video 2.
VIDEO TWO
Why Hard Work Isn’t Moving You Forward (The Spiral Keeping You Stuck)
If effort was the answer, you wouldn’t have a problem.
This video explains why so many capable leaders are busy all week, and still don’t get ahead.
You’ll be introduced to a simple model we use inside LEAD LAB®: The Leadership Spiral.
It shows you:
- why you get pulled into reactivity (even with good intentions)
- the three “rings” most leaders bounce between every week
- how to map your own week in under five minutes
- what one small shift would move you outward immediately
- why adding more tools often makes things worse, not better
This is the video where leaders usually say:
“So this isn’t about me being disorganised… it’s about the system I’m operating inside.”
Exactly.
Then Video 3 gives you the part leaders actually want: What do I do instead?
VIDEO THREE
The 3-Part Leadership Reset That Changes Everything
This is where we stop diagnosing and start rebuilding.
In Video 3, you’ll see the structure we teach inside LEAD LAB® - the Momentum Framework - and how it creates sustainable leadership without relying on you being the hero.
You’ll learn:
- what “Deliver” looks like when it’s done properly (and why it stops decisions defaulting to you)
- how “Grow” removes bottlenecks by lifting capability and ownership
- how “Optimise” creates resilience, continuity, and scalable systems
- why the order matters (and why most leaders try to optimise before they’ve created clarity)
- what changes when you stop managing work and start leading the environment where work happens
This is the reset that makes leadership feel like leadership again.
Not a constant triage.
Companion Workbook: The Leadership Reset Workbook
This series comes with a workbook helps you translate insight into action while it’s fresh.
It includes:
The Invisible Load Audit (Video 1)
The Leadership Spiral map (Video 2)
A Momentum Framework snapshot + “small action for the week” prompts (Video 3)
A final commitment section so this doesn’t become “interesting” and then forgotten
It’s designed to create leverage, quickly.
TAKE THE FIRST STEP
Hard work doesn’t fix a structure that leaks responsibility.
Teams don’t step up when leaders carry everything.
This series is for team leaders, supervisors, managers and senior leaders who:
are carrying too much responsibility for day-to-day decisions
feel like they’re constantly needed for clarity, approvals, or fixes
want a team that operates with more ownership and confidence
want to lead with more strategic space - without becoming disconnected
are done with leadership content that sounds good but doesn’t land in real life
If you’re leading people, this will be relevant, and you’ll be able to start implementing immediately.
"A practical resource that every leader should have on hand."
About Us
At Incredible People, our mission is to build incredible leaders so they can build incredible teams.
In our leadership training and coaching, we walk alongside our clients to build the foundations activities leaders at all levels need to embed to build high performing and motivated teams, and tailor these to their leadership experience and industry context.
Having worked with over 1,000 leaders at all levels of organisations in corporate, business, non-profit and government sectors, we know that the secret sauce to leading any team, at any level of an organisation, can be distilled to nine do-able actions, that they implement, on repeat.
These actions can be grouped into three focus areas and together they form The Momentum Framework.
This framework underpins all our coaching and training, to ensure we set our clients up for success.
The Momentum Framework
Deliver establishes a clear direction and aligns teams towards shared goals, avoiding confusion, duplication and performance gaps.
Grow focuses on hiring, onboarding, and developing talent to enhance engagement and reduce staff turnover.
Optimise emphasises timely feedback, coaching, succession planning, and systemised processes, minimising disruptions and avoiding constant fire-fighting.
By integrating Deliver, Grow, and Optimise, leaders will enjoy the benefits of:
Clear direction
An engaged team
Future proofing the organisation
"A fantastic blend of strategic vision and real-world application."