When we delegate and trust, employees come to work and say ‘Game on!’
Motivation will happen when employees are allowed to solve their own problems, and create their own aspirations and expectations.
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Now that we have climbed the ladder from command and control to delegate and trust, we can start to reap the benefits. Innovation is crucial to a business being able to bring new and improved products and services to the market and be profitable.
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Are you a TITO manager or a TITO leader?
The focus of a TITO manager is Time In The Office.
The focus of a TITO leader is Trust In The Outcomes.
I have worked with both
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A little knowledge is……
Talking with Aprill Allen about knowledge management and self help. Pitfalls, challenges, opportunities and the future.
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In a world of constant change, experimentation is critical. Innovation cannot exist without experimentation. Experimentation is at the core of the success of organizations such as Amazon, Starbucks, and Google. Some experiments work while others don’t.
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Leadership is not the right of a few but the responsibility of all.
Organizations that distribute power have new leadership practices that do not rely on the effectiveness of a few but the effectiveness of the formal and informal networks across the organization. Leadership can be spread across individuals and teams. Those not in a ‘formal’ leadership role can still be leaders.
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Talking with Robert Bull about lean thinking. What is operational excellence and what does LEAN really look like.
Read MoreLeaders need to work diligently to build a culture that embraces constant change, delegates decision making, avoids the unnecessary bureaucracy brought about by hierarchy, trusts people to do the right thing, encourages collaboration, experimentation and creativity. This culture provides psychological safety where there is no negative consequence for ‘having a go’. Experimentation and risk taking is encouraged within provisioned guardrails or principles.
How do leaders bring about that sort of transformational change?
Read MoreMany organizations now finding themselves in what is being termed the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ are looking to technology to drive the organization forward.
They want to take advantage of technology including machine learning, real-time data analytics, robotics and artificial intelligence.
One would think that with the enabling technologies for things such as artificial intelligence and machine learning being more readily available and affordable there would be a mad rush to embrace these new capabilities.
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Employees want clear direction from leadership but they also want freedom accompanied by loose guidelines and direction. Therefore, leaders need to relinquish control. Distribution of power throughout the organization and reliance on decision-making from those closest to the action is of extreme importance.
Read MoreWhich zone are you in? Which zone are your people in?
We need to know our people and recognize the warning signs when they are approaching the terror zone. We need to work with them so they can identify what is in their comfort zone and what could be in their stretch zone.
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king to James Gander - MD Gander Consulting - about games people play.
Simulations, their use, purposedand benefits.
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Leaders can only truly give up control by giving people autonomy.
There is extensive research and study into the effects of employee autonomy showing increased well-being, levels of job satisfaction, engagement, motivation, and productivity. This leads to reduced attrition and retention of talent within the organisation.
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Talking with Barrie Clarke from Q4IT about Project Management.
Project Management is Changing. Or Is It?
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If leaders want to give up command and control, they have to trust their employees to do the right thing. When this happens, employees feel they are an integral part of the team.
In order to give up the command and control, and move towards delegation and trust, leaders need to be transparent.
To give up control means to delegate. When leaders delegate work to employees, they get increased productivity, quality, engagement, and motivation.
Read MoreWhen leaders are giving up the command and control approach, they don't have to give it all up at once. Giving up can be hard for many. Leaders shouldn’t try to eat the elephant in one go. They should eat it in bite size pieces.
They should look for an initiative or project that is within their scope of control and decide to let go. They give up control, and set clear goals and objectives. They provide guiding principles or guardrails and step back.
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Our leaders should set clear goals and objectives, and ensure that everyone understands what they will be held accountable for. Command and control management ensures that orders and work requirements are carried out by following strict plans and directions. We have to give this up.
Read MoreI have been asked to consolidate some of my recent blogs into a white paper and make it available to download by my subscribers.
The paper describes what would happen if organisations stopped focusing so much on profit, stakeholder and competition and instead shifted the focus to people.
It is my belief that if we truly focus on the people side of the business, the rest will take care of itself.
Read MoreAt the start of the decade, the typical worker lacked 1.2 of the critical skills needed by an employer to fill a given position. Today, the average worker is missing around 2 of the 18 critical skills that are advertised for a job.
Read MoreThe old lens of profit, return, competition and efficiency will not get organizations to where they need to be.
This old lens on business will not enable organizations to transform in a way they must in order to not only survive but also thrive.
Organizations will have to reexamine not only how they do business but also how they are led and managed.
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