Letting go

In some situations the problem with ownership is not to get the staff to take ownership – much more often the difficulty lies with the manager being reluctant to let go!

With this in mind consider the following:

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

Things won’t change unless the people in the situation change – not just for a day or two, but permanently. If one person changes and another doesn’t, the one who doesn’t will pull the other one back to the old methods of operating – especially if that person is a manager.

A good manager doesn’t need to stand over their staff to ensure the job gets done. They can leave their staff to get on with it – confident of a high quality and consistent outcome. In order to arrive at this point, an essential element is required – trust. If you don’t trust your staff, they will find out very quickly and act accordingly.