If you were being honest when your team asks for a promotion

Based on what I've heard from business owners and managers who've had this exact conversation... Someone on your team is ambitious. They want to grow. They're involved in everything: every meeting, every project, every Slack thread. Their calendar is packed. They're the first to raise their hand. And then you go to check on their actual deliverables and you genuinely don't know what to put on the list. They're everywhere. And nothing is getting done. So they come to you asking for more responsibility. And you're sitting there doing the math, trying to figure out how to say: you haven't finished what you already have. The conversation they want to have is about their future. Buuuut... the conversation you need to have is about their job description. (FYI — this is satire meant to highlight a very real pattern leaders deal with in silence: busyness is not the same as output. Not a script for your next 1:1. Please be kind to your team 😅)