69. Want Your Team to Take Ownership? Stop Taking It Back - Solo Episode

In this solo episode of It Starts With YOU, Vic O'Farrell asks a question many managers have probably found themselves asking: "Why does everything always come back to me?"

You want your team to take more responsibility. You delegate. You hand something over. And then… they don't do it the way you would.

So you step back in.

Using a very relatable example involving a badly loaded dishwasher, Vic explores the difference between genuinely giving someone ownership and simply expecting them to repeat your way of doing things.

If the process matters, explain the standards and, importantly, explain why. But if the end result is what matters, sometimes good leadership means stepping away and letting people find their own way there.

Because if you continually take work back, redo it or correct people simply because they approached it differently, eventually they'll stop stepping up altogether.

A short episode about delegation, responsibility, trust and learning when to simply let it go.

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