Key finding
For offshore executive support team: workflow boundary review, ask where routine preparation ends and accountable judgment begins. The review should follow executive coordination from intake through accepted output rather than relying on task counts or self-reported completion. Report unowned steps, mixed decision rights, and exceptions without a named destination. The evidence should make a confidential or priority-changing decision visible before work crosses the role boundary, while approval remains with the executive.
Review question
For offshore executive support team: workflow boundary review, ask where routine preparation ends and accountable judgment begins. The review should follow executive coordination from intake through accepted output rather than relying on task counts or self-reported completion.
Records and method
Collect calendar requests, briefing sources, action owners, and priority changes. Then mark each workflow step as preparation, review, approval, or escalation. Preserve rejected and unresolved samples so the executive can see where the operating definition failed.
Decision signal
Report unowned steps, mixed decision rights, and exceptions without a named destination. The evidence should make a confidential or priority-changing decision visible before work crosses the role boundary, while approval remains with the executive.
Evidence boundary
For offshore executive support team: workflow boundary review, the public sources frame controls relevant to executive coordination; they do not prove performance for a specific company. Local policy, contracts, system evidence, and qualified review determine whether this protocol is appropriate.
Sources
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