Comments on: Moving Team Members from Being Controlled to Taking Initiative http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/moving-team-members-from-being-controlled-to-taking-initiative.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Trusting Employees to Know Their Jobs | Sharing at Work http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/moving-team-members-from-being-controlled-to-taking-initiative.html/comment-page-1#comment-32979 Trusting Employees to Know Their Jobs | Sharing at Work Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:17:35 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8510#comment-32979 [...] Moving Team Members from Being Controlled to Taking Initiative (Johanna Rothman, Managing Product Development) And if you’ve hired people with little initiative (hard to believe, but possible), explain what you need, ask for results, and back off for a while. Let people learn how to take initiative. There’s a reason it’s called “take initiative “and not “give initiative.” © 2008 Daniel J. Pritchett & sharingatwork.com Share and Enjoy: [...] [...] Moving Team Members from Being Controlled to Taking Initiative (Johanna Rothman, Managing Product Development) And if you’ve hired people with little initiative (hard to believe, but possible), explain what you need, ask for results, and back off for a while. Let people learn how to take initiative. There’s a reason it’s called “take initiative “and not “give initiative.” © 2008 Daniel J. Pritchett & sharingatwork.com Share and Enjoy: [...]

]]> By: Steve Freeman http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/moving-team-members-from-being-controlled-to-taking-initiative.html/comment-page-1#comment-23795 Steve Freeman Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:07:28 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8510#comment-23795 My guess is that it takes at least 3 months for a team to loosen up. One trick is "masterly inaction", when asked for direction ask them what they would do... My guess is that it takes at least 3 months for a team to loosen up. One trick is “masterly inaction”, when asked for direction ask them what they would do…

]]> By: Daniel J. Pritchett http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/09/moving-team-members-from-being-controlled-to-taking-initiative.html/comment-page-1#comment-23691 Daniel J. Pritchett Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:26:52 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8510#comment-23691 Johanna, Thanks for taking the time to write this blog. I enjoy reading it and I was especially interested in this post. The idea of enabling team members to get things done rather than simply giving them orders is a powerful one. Johanna,
Thanks for taking the time to write this blog. I enjoy reading it and I was especially interested in this post.

The idea of enabling team members to get things done rather than simply giving them orders is a powerful one.

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