Autonomy: striking the right balance
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A workplace with autonomy isn’t a utopia where everyone does whatever they want. Autonomy is a journey towards balancing freedom and choice with responsibility and accountability. It needs leaders to facilitate and coaches, and means adopting tools and processes that enable self-regulation.
Jon Barnes is a consultant who has devoted most of his professional life to autonomy and self-managed teams. He helps organisations move towards self-management by coaching teams and working one-on-one with CEOs. For Jon, autonomy is about empowering teams and individuals to make decisions and take ownership of their work while fostering a culture of trust and collaboration.
Three reasons to listen
- Gain insights into the concept of autonomy and what it truly means in a workplace setting.
- Understand the myths and misconceptions surrounding autonomy and self-management.
- Learn about different decision-making processes and their effectiveness in organizations.
Episode highlights
- [00:10:57] What is autonomy, and what is it not?
- [00:14:18] Who benefits from autonomy?
- [00:16:16] What decision-making processes realy work?
- [00:19:23] Challenges for autonomous team leaders
- [00:22:44] Challenges for autonomous team members
- [00:32:50] How our need for agency changes over time
- [00:37:27] Getting started with creating an autonomous team
- [00:40:07] Takeaways from Dan and Pia
Links
- Connect with Jon via LinkedIn
- Jon’s Inner Management course
- Kick Out Your Boss – Ricardo Semler documentary
- The ups and downs removing the hierarchy from a team – Episode 65 with Tom McLaughlin
- There are no solutions, only trade-offs – Thomas Sowell
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play it, by Will Storr
- Locus of control
- Individual identity in teams – Episode 21, with James Prior
- Leave us a voice note
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