How to use Management to increase Producing Capacity

<ul><li>image from https://blog.anggriawan.com/2019/10/how-to-be-effective-person.html</li></ul> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>Management is essentially moving the fulcrum over, and the key to effective management is delegation - Stephen Covey, (Habit 3) Seven Habits of Highly Effective People</p></blockquote> <h2>Where Micromanagement Does work</h2> <ul><li>it works for E people (see Alderfer’s ERG theory),</li><li>routine people who LIKE being told what to do<ul><li>because they dont have to think, so they can think about something else.</li><li>like students or those busy with other big things</li><li>for people like them, routine is a breather.</li></ul></li></ul> <h2>Where Micromanagement Doesn’t work</h2> <ul><li>it does not work for G people (see Alderfer’s ERG theory)</li><li>if u are a G person.even you won’t enjoy being micromanaged (but subconciously we tend to do it to others)</li></ul> <h2>How do you increase output with G people?</h2> <p>the key is delegation</p> <p>proper task delegation have the ff: characteristics (much like a task delegation guidelines)</p> <ul><li>Desired Results<ul><li>what need’s to be done, NOT how to do it.</li><li>most of us fail here, we fail to share the output so we end up not trusting the other party so we dive into telling them exactly how to act.<ul><li>this hurts Autonomy (one of the 3 factors behind motivation according to Dan Pink’s “Drive”)</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Guidelines<ul><li>the rules of engagement</li><li>safety notes on what we SHOULD NOT do.</li><li>this avoids repeating past known mistakes.</li><li>when effectively defined, this removes the fear of failure from the “manager”</li></ul></li><li>Resources<ul><li>who the asignee can talk to (and their roles),</li><li>the financial resources(hardware/software/office tools) ,</li><li>technical resources (information/data/knowledge base available),</li><li>too many plans but without resources result in FRUSTRATION, see So you want change? How to avoid confusion, anxiety, resistance, frustration and false starts.</li></ul></li><li>Accountability<ul><li>OKRs / Metrics against task delivery will be evaluated.</li><li>this tells us if the Desired Results has been achieved or how close we are now.</li></ul></li><li>Consequences<ul><li>share what will happen if the task fails<ul><li>people who understand the impact of the task on the big picture get more involvement, meanining more commitment</li><li>one of the top 10 ted talks of all time (by Simon Sinek) also say that people are more commited to a cause when they understand the WHY</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>