Stop being the bottleneck: build leaders at every level with Jethro's counsel
Exodus 18, Deuteronomy, Solomon, Nehemiah, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Sayings of the Fathers, turned into a workload diagnosis, decision-rights map, mentoring conversation and 12-week programme.
- A 10-chapter e-book with 43 verbatim quotations from public-domain texts and Bodhih's own plain-words renderings
- The Leaders of Tens Workbook: workload diagnosis, layer design, decision rights, hard cases, mentoring pipeline and leader hours released
- A 9-sheet practice workbook, 6 fillable forms and 7 Word files, including 43 scripts, 52 team emails and 28 AI prompts
- A 52-card practice deck, a Start Here map, a 55-event calendar and a 33-task board import
Jethro's Counsel and Solomon's Proverbs · Bodhih Pro Kits · 160 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
What did Jethro advise Moses about delegation?
In Exodus 18, Jethro saw Moses judging the people alone from morning to evening and told him it was not sustainable. He advised teaching people the way, appointing able, honest leaders over groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens, letting them decide small matters and bringing only hard cases up. Bodhih Training's kit turns this into a working system.
Want the full free guide first? Read Jethro's Advice to Moses: Delegation Lessons from Exodus 18.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
Everything waits on you
Approvals, disputes and small decisions queue up from morning to evening. Each is reasonable on its own; together they leave no time for the hard cases only you can handle.
The team grew, the layers did not
Eight team leads all report to you and nobody leads the leads. Every exception climbs straight to the top.
Nobody knows who decides
With unwritten rules, escalating feels safe and deciding feels risky, so capable people keep asking permission.
Hard cases arrive late, or not at all
Small things reach you instantly while the real risks wait, because there is no clear route for them.
No successor in sight
Your deputies run the work well, but none has ever owned a decision you care about.
Ancient wisdom as posters
Lines from Proverbs or Exodus appear in speeches but never become habits. Without a routine, a log and team tools, they stay on the wall.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Picture tomorrow at 08:00. You draw the week's card, read one line in the World English Bible or Taylor's Sayings of the Fathers, then ask Jethro's question: what am I doing today that someone else should own? You write one item and one name. Three minutes, and the day has a direction.
Now imagine Friday afternoon. You open the Leaders of Tens Workbook and see the hours a week you have already handed to the layers below you. One hard case came up twice this month, so you turn it into a rule, and next month it stays below.
Imagine the first Tuesday of the month. As you sit down with someone you are developing, you ask what went well, hand them one real decision and agree where they will get credit. Six months on, you have names on your succession plan.
And picture week twelve. Whether you begin with the e-book tonight or the workload log tomorrow, the morning check, the Friday review and the mentoring conversations are already in your calendar.
22 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
Jethro's Counsel and Solomon's Proverbs (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here map
The daily, weekly and monthly rhythm on one page, which file to open for each leadership moment, your first hour and a 30/60/90 day use plan.
Jethro Leadership Practice Workbook
9-sheet master workbook: settings, 27-principle library, daily practice log with streak counter and small-matters alert, weekly review, situations log, monthly team pulse, 12-week programme tracker and a dashboard with a weekly chart.
Leaders of Tens Workbook
The kit's signature diagnostic: a Jethro workload diagnosis that shows leader hours you can release, layer design for leaders of tens, fifties and hundreds with span checks, a decision-rights and escalation map, a delegation tracker, a hard-cases log that turns repeats into rules, a mentoring pipeline with readiness scores, and a dashboard of hours released.
Morning Jethro check: a week per page
Two fillable pages: the daily engine for one week on one page (the week's card, the morning Jethro check and the evening line) and the Friday delegation review. Print one set per week.
Jethro workload diagnosis
Three fillable pages to log everything that comes to you for five working days, sort it into small matters and hard cases, name who could own each item and see the hours you could release.
Decision rights and escalation map
Three fillable pages: write how you decide so others can decide the same way, map decision rights by layer with escalation triggers, and run a fair hearing when a hard case arrives.
Nehemiah project plan
Three fillable pages to lead one change the way Nehemiah rebuilt the wall: survey before you speak, make the case, assign sections near home, plan for fatigue and opposition, agree one signal, and put people decisions through a values check.
Mentoring conversation guide (Sayings of the Fathers)
Two fillable pages for a 45-minute monthly mentoring conversation in five moves, drawn from the Sayings of the Fathers: the good way, what kind of learner, one real decision, their honour and the next step.
Counsel review: whose advice do I seek?
Two fillable pages: map the people whose advice shapes your decisions and check for Rehoboam's gap, then a weekly counsel review of whom you consulted, who disagreed and what you did with it.
Leadership scripts and messages, with delegation conversations by level
43 exact-words scripts and messages, including 14 delegation conversations for leaders of tens, fifties and hundreds, plus fair hearing, listening, counsel, mentoring and succession, leading a change, and short chat and email messages.
Team workshop facilitator guide
Facilitator guide for a 90-minute session and a half-day workshop on Jethro's counsel and Solomon's proverbs: timed agendas, slide outline, exercises, debrief questions and follow-up.
Leadership code: team charter
One-page team charter to adopt in a workshop: how we share decisions, bring hard cases up, hear people fairly, take counsel, develop each other and lead change.
Principle of the week: 52 team emails
52 short team emails or chat posts (one per card), each with a subject line, one principle, one question and one action, ready to send every Monday.
Succession and mentoring plan template
Editable plan for the succession of your own role and the layer below: critical decisions and relationships, possible successors scored on four qualities, a 12-month development plan for each, mentoring rhythm and an emergency cover plan.
AI prompt pack for delegation and mentoring
28 tool-agnostic prompts grouped by leadership moment, each with what to paste in and what to check before using the output.
Worked example pack: Meera's 12 weeks
The kit's main forms completely filled in for one composite leader: a morning Jethro check week and Friday review, the workload diagnosis, a decision-rights map and fair hearing, a counsel circle, a mentoring conversation, a Nehemiah project plan and her week-12 dashboards.
All principles on one page, and about the source
All 27 principles with source references and plain words, Jethro's design in one line, and a card on the texts, the translations used and how to read them.
Situation finder decision card, misreadings and mistakes
If this happens, use this: 24 leadership moments with the principle, the file to open and the first move; then 11 harmful misreadings, ten practice mistakes and a Friday self-check.
Jethro practice card deck
52 printable practice cards in four suits, one principle per card with a verbatim line from the World English Bible or Taylor's 1897 Sayings of the Fathers, or an In plain words line, plus a question and a one-line action, and a how-to page.
12-week programme calendar
55 calendar events: set-up, a Monday card-and-chapter reminder, each programme action and a Friday delegation review for all 12 weeks, each naming the file to open.
12-week programme task board import
33 programme actions as a CSV for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira, with week, focus, file to open and due date.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 22 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 70 pages
- Workbooks
- 9 and 9 sheets with sample data, formulas and dashboards
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, GoodNotes, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner, Jira
- Best for
- Managers and leaders who have become the bottleneck and want to build leaders at every level
The Thing You Are Doing Is Not Good
A leader answering everything from morning to evening, the texts and translations used, and the daily engine that runs the kit.
Jethro's Diagnosis
Jethro's question about the waiting queue, and a five-day workload diagnosis that separates small matters from hard cases.
Leaders of Tens
Teach the way first, then build nested layers of leaders for groups of different sizes, and find the missing layer.
Small Matters and Hard Cases
One owner per decision, escalation triggers in facts or numbers, and a hard-cases log that moves the line down over time.
Able, Trustworthy, Known
Choosing leaders who are able, truthful, not for sale and known to their people, tested with a real slice of the role.
Hear the Small and the Great Alike
Deuteronomy's three rules for fair decisions and a five-step fair hearing: name your pull, hear the small first, decide without fear.
An Understanding Heart
Solomon's request for judgement rather than power, and listening that draws out what people really think.
The Multitude of Counsellors
Proverbs on advisers, Rehoboam's choice of counsellors, and a counsel review that closes the gap in your circle.
Raise Up Many Disciples
The duty to raise up many disciples, four kinds of learner, and a monthly mentoring conversation in five moves.
Building the Wall
Nehemiah's wall as a model for leading one change, including stopping the work to end an injustice and a three-question values check.
A Time for Every Purpose
Ecclesiastes on seasons, timing and skill, and a quarterly seasons review that names what should end.
If Not Now, When?
Hillel's three questions, and how to keep the engine running after week 12.
Reading the Sources Well
The translations, numbering, cuts, passages we do not use, respect for faith, and legal and HR boundaries.
The Passages Behind the Kit
A reading plan of the passages behind the kit, mapped to the chapters.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- Jethro's Counsel and Solomon's Proverbs: 10 chapters, introduction, conclusion, 2 appendices and 6 hand-drawn figures, about 10,500 words (PDF)
Start here
- 00-Start-Here-Map: the daily, weekly and monthly rhythm, which file to open for each leadership moment, your first hour and a 30/60/90 day plan
Spreadsheets
- Jethro Leadership Practice Workbook (9 sheets): Start here, Settings, Principles library of 27, Daily Log with streak counter and small-matters alert, Weekly Review, Situations Log, Team Pulse, Programme Tracker and a Dashboard with a weekly chart
- Leaders of Tens Workbook (9 sheets): workload diagnosis with hours released, layer design with span checks, decision-rights map, delegation tracker, hard-cases log, mentoring pipeline with readiness scores and a dashboard
Fillable PDF forms
- Morning Jethro check: a week per page, with the Friday delegation review
- Jethro workload diagnosis
- Decision rights and escalation map, with the fair hearing
- Nehemiah project plan, with the values check
- Mentoring conversation guide (Sayings of the Fathers)
- Counsel review: whose advice do I seek?
Word templates
- Leadership scripts and messages: 43 scripts, including 14 delegation conversations by level
- Team workshop facilitator guide: 90-minute and half-day versions
- Leadership code: one-page team charter
- Principle of the week: 52 team emails
- Succession and mentoring plan template
- AI prompt pack for delegation and mentoring: 28 prompts
- Worked example pack: Meera's 12 weeks, the main forms filled in
Cheat sheets
- All 27 principles on one page, and about the source: the texts, the translations used and how to read them
- Situation finder decision card (24 moments), misreadings and mistakes
- Jethro practice card deck: 52 cards in four suits plus a how-to page (14 printable pages)
Calendar and import
- 12-week programme calendar (ICS): 55 events for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar
- 12-week programme task board (CSV): 33 tasks for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- Run a three-minute morning Jethro check and a two-minute evening line
- Diagnose your workload and see how many hours a week are small matters others could own
- Draw your leadership layers and find the missing one
- Map every recurring decision to one owner layer with escalation triggers in facts or numbers
- Choose leaders on four qualities from evidence, and test them with a real slice of the role
- Run a fair hearing that gives the junior and the senior the same hearing
- Hold a monthly mentoring conversation in five moves and write a succession plan
- Lead one change on the Nehemiah project board, with a values check for people decisions
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
A taste of Chapter 1
Meera logged 214 items in five days: about 31 hours a week. Nineteen hours were small matters: part orders under an agreed value, overtime within policy, rota swaps, routine customer updates. Six were genuine hard cases: a safety incident, a contract dispute, a hiring decision. The rest was teaching, strategy and relationships. The surprise was the column "Who could own this?" For almost every small matter there was a name, often someone who had once owned it and stopped because Meera kept answering first. Her habit, not their ability, had pulled the work up. She wrote her first morning check on Wednesday: "Part orders under the limit: Pune area lead, from today."
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| The ideas | Exodus 18 quoted in a slide | 43 verbatim quotations, each turned into a method with steps and a worked example |
| The source | Lines from copyrighted modern translations | Word for word from the public-domain World English Bible and Charles Taylor's 1897 Sayings of the Fathers |
| Delegation | "Empower your people" | A workload diagnosis, layer design and decision-rights map with escalation triggers |
| Hard cases | "My door is always open" | A hard-cases log that turns repeated escalations into rules |
| Mentoring | Occasional coffee chats | A monthly five-move conversation, a pipeline with readiness scores and a succession plan |
| The team | Personal reading only | Workshop guide, leadership code, 52 team emails, monthly pulse and a 52-card deck |
| Respect | Scripture used to win arguments | Wisdom literature treated with respect, no religious claims, and a 'What this does not mean' box in every chapter |
Made for you if…
- Managers and team leads who answer everything and want decisions to happen closer to the work
- Founders and heads of function whose teams have grown faster than their leadership layers
- HR and L&D leaders building delegation, mentoring and succession programmes
- Leaders preparing successors or taking over a team that relied on one person
- Senior professionals who know these texts, or are curious about them, and want a practical system rather than quotations
- Leaders of any faith or none: the kit treats the sources as wisdom literature, not religious instruction
Probably not for you if…
- Readers wanting biblical scholarship, theology or devotional material: the history is brief and the focus is practice
- Anyone looking for legal or HR advice on restructures or promotion: the kit teaches good practice and points you to HR and local law
- People who want personal task-delegation tips only: see the Delegation and Workload Planner kit
Built by trainers, tested in real rooms.
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008. Bodhih Pro Kits package what works in those workshops into a guide plus the exact tools we use, so you can apply it the same day without a facilitator in the room.
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Someone is waiting on a decision you could hand over today.
Open the Start Here map, type your start date into the Settings sheet and log the next ten things that come to you. Whether you begin with the e-book tonight or the first card tomorrow morning, the practice starts the same day.
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Jethro's Counsel and Solomon's Proverbs: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkIs this a religious book?
No. These texts are sacred to Jews and Christians, and Moses is honoured in Islam, and the kit treats that reverence with respect. It presents them as wisdom literature and heritage applied to leadership, with no religious claims, devotional practice or theology. It is written for leaders of any faith or none.
Which translations do you use and why?
Biblical quotations are copied word for word from the World English Bible, which its publisher has placed in the public domain. The Sayings of the Fathers are quoted from Charles Taylor's 1897 Cambridge translation, also in the public domain. The In plain words lines and everything else are Bodhih Training's own wording; no modern copyrighted translation or popular book is quoted or echoed.
What did Jethro tell Moses in Exodus 18?
That judging every case alone from morning to evening would wear out both Moses and the people. He advised teaching people the way, choosing able, honest leaders over groups of different sizes, letting them settle small matters and bringing only the hard cases to Moses. Moses took the advice.
How is this different from the Delegation and Workload Planner?
The Delegation and Workload Planner helps you hand over your own tasks. This kit is about building leadership layers: who decides what at each level, how hard cases come up, how you choose leaders and how you mentor successors.
How long does the daily practice take?
About five minutes a day: three in the morning for the Jethro check and two in the evening. The Friday delegation review takes twenty minutes and each monthly mentoring conversation about forty-five.
Can I use it with my team?
Yes. The workshop guide has 90-minute and half-day versions, the leadership code is a one-page team charter, and the 52 principle-of-the-week emails match the card deck. Your personal licence covers use with your own team; company licences are available.
Is the mentoring pipeline suitable for promotion decisions?
It is a thinking aid for job-related evidence, not legal or HR advice. It never scores personal characteristics or belief. For promotions, restructures and role changes, follow your HR process, company policy and local employment law.
How do I measure my starting point?
AssessAll offers three assessments that fit this kit: Delegation & Empowerment, Mentoring & Sponsorship, Coaching & Developing Others. Take one in week one and again after week twelve to compare. They are separate products, not included; links are on the Start Here map.
How do I turn this into a development plan?
Jobulary's individual development plan tool, linked on the Start Here map, helps you turn what you learn in the twelve weeks into a measured plan with goals and review dates.
How is this different from Old Wisdom for Modern Days?
Old Wisdom for Modern Days covers ten traditions as a personal philosophy. This kit goes deep on Hebrew wisdom for people who lead others, with delegation, decision rights, mentoring and change tools and a 12-week programme.
How much does Jethro's Counsel and Solomon's Proverbs cost?
₹1,299 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $34 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
