@vicktipnes: One test tells me if leadership is real. Can you still do their job better than they can? If yes, you are paying a leadership salary for supervision work. Real leaders build their own replacement into the seat. Nobody puts that in the job description. Quick audit before you promote anyone else: Pick the one task you keep pulling back onto your plate. Write the outcome that role should hit without you touching it. Hand it off and stay out of it for two weeks straight. The businesses that scale are run by people who made themselves replaceable on purpose. Save this and go find the seat you are still filling.