# Make, Sponsor, Escalate
Source: https://humanspark.ai/frameworks/make-sponsor-escalate/

*Sort every stalled decision into three columns.*

**When to use:** When the blockers all look like somebody else's to move.

Make

Yours alone. Who goes first, whose hours are protected, where freed capacity goes.

Sponsor

Your backing, someone else's hands. The people who do the work design its new shape.

Escalate

Belongs to IT, compliance or the centre. Fewer of them than you think.

> **An escalation is not a sigh in a status meeting:** A named person, a specific ruling, a date, and what happens without it.

## Related frameworks

- [The Leadership Literacy Floor](https://humanspark.ai/frameworks/leadership-literacy-floor/) - Do not sponsor what you have not seen
- [The Two Adoption Gaps](https://humanspark.ai/frameworks/two-adoption-gaps/) - Which gap the decisions are stuck in