If you are typically hands-off, for example using business plans to guide your organization and relying on financial reports to keep you informed, realize that you are not materially involved. You are not informed. There are issues in your organization you have little insight into.
But a lack of time and resource aren’t the primary reasons that many managers and parents find it difficult to empower others. The real reason is that they can’t let go.
Many organizations are wrestling with if, when, and how employees will work remotely going forward. Should they require everyone to return to work? Or should they offer a hybrid model where some people work remotely and some don’t?
If you or your team work in a feedback-poor culture because feedback is perceived to be at odds with being a team player, or other reasons, consider this – great teams encourage and compliment each other but they also help each other become better.
Guess what improvement area people want help with most often? Communications. Why? Great communicators are the best leaders. They are the most influential and persuasive. They build the highest performing organizations. They make the most money.
