Your team member craves structure and freedom. How can you balance their needs for guidance and creativity?
Finding the right balance between providing guidance and allowing creativity can be a challenging yet rewarding task. Here's how to achieve it:
How do you balance structure and freedom within your team?
Your team member craves structure and freedom. How can you balance their needs for guidance and creativity?
Finding the right balance between providing guidance and allowing creativity can be a challenging yet rewarding task. Here's how to achieve it:
How do you balance structure and freedom within your team?
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When balancing a team member's need for structure and creativity, it's crucial to offer both direction and freedom. Here’s how to manage that balance: 1- Define clear goals to provide direction and expectations. 2- Allow autonomy in how tasks are approached, encouraging creativity. 3- Offer consistent feedback to ensure alignment while fostering growth. 4- Provide flexibility in how and when work is completed to support their independence. 5- Encourage collaboration to integrate their ideas with the team's vision. Great leaders don’t give all the answers—they create the space for others to find them.
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Provide clear goals and expectations while allowing room for flexibility in how they approach tasks. Set up a framework/KPI's with Continuous conversation, check-ins, and guidelines, at the same time encourage them to use their creativity to come up with new initiatives/ ideas.
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Oh this is so close to my heart and experience. It is a mixed blessing to have such talent in the team because they challenge you and the traditional norms. In such cases, it is important to share the larger picture and outcomes that the team is driving. Give them a track / theme or vertical in that goal to go ahead and achieve. Never ever micro manage but important to review periodically (I erred on this at times). Its also important to give them the confidence and create a culture that success belongs to the respective member and the mess up will be owned by the manager / lead. This helps create a very safe work space and one with mutual respect.
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- Clearly communicate your vision and ensure the team understands it. - Give them autonomy and invite them to use their own experience to achieve that vision. - Maintain continuous feedback loops - guide through questions and coaching rather than giving direct answers. - Prioritise psychological safety at all times. - From the start, express your trust that they will make the right decisions, and reassure them that if something goes wrong you’ll 100% be there to catch them.
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Ensure the team member knows exactly what the end goals are. While you give them the freedom to choose how they achieve those goals, having a clear understanding of the desired outcomes will provide the necessary structure. Define Boundaries and Deadlines: Set clear deadlines, priorities, and guidelines to avoid confusion or misalignment. This will give them the structure they crave while still allowing the space to work creatively.
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