From the course: Boosting Your Team's Productivity
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Simplify decision making
From the course: Boosting Your Team's Productivity
Simplify decision making
- At Merck Pharmaceuticals a group of managers decided to stop making decisions that their direct reports were already authorized to make. The goal was to empower people and encourage accountability, and that's exactly what happened. The employees made decisions and they turned out to be good ones. The employees reported feeling more invested in the results of those decisions. And managers found themselves with a few hours of newly freed up time every month. Rather than just telling people that they're empowered give them opportunities to actually empower themselves. With your own team ask each person to make two decisions over the next month. Decisions that would normally involve your input or permission. By that, I mean minor but constant questions like can I invite Leslie to tomorrow's meeting? Or can I fix this typo in our home page? 30 days from now gather your team and ask them what decisions did you make? Were you comfortable making them? Which types of decisions will you…
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