Freeing the front line workers and providing due autonomy to the employees, has long been vouched for by company leaders. Yet, few have managed to actually crack this code. One way to inculcate this is for leaders to develop a strategic mindset. This will ensure that the grind of wanting to micromanage will reduce, if not disappear altogether. A lot of team leaders fear that excess autonomy granted to the employees could lead to a tailing off of their alignment with the overall corporate strategy. The management must also adopt the system of funneling. This will ensure that while the will to innovate thrives, too much time will not get wasted on poor- quality initiatives. The talent management structures should also be defined such that the rules to be followed are simple. The fear that weeding out bureaucracy will lead to employees not knowing what to do, can be eliminated by having simple house rules. In order to mitigate risks, the ventures must be distributed across the levels. Oversight can then be avoided.

Source:https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-to-give-your-team-the-right-amount-of-autonomy

Uploaded Date:29 July 2019