Balancing autonomy with high performance is one of the hardest parts of leadership
My Thoughts On Mixing Autonomy With High Performance
Mixing autonomy with high performance is a challenge in itself because it requires clear boundaries.
It’s knowing what yours ultimately. You have to think of when incorporating automation into your daily routine, it’s also relinquishing responsibility. Early on you’re going to be used to making every decision that’s done on behalf of whatever your business is. That can be an empowering feeling to experience how much you can really get done by yourself. However, you eventually get in tune with your ceiling as well too. There’s only so much that you alone are able to do with applying your own thinking power and efforts.
When you add autonomy though, the real challenge you have to figure out is determining what it is that you’re not willing to let someone do for you. It’s different for everyone, but finding what’s unique to you, makes knowing your role that much more crucial to know.
Properly balancing these two points ideally creates a shared vision. It’s not all your own at this point because you’re literally adding another mind into your operation. As they’re added, you manage incorporating someone that has to think differently than you in order to expand everything that’s going into your business. The vision expands as your results start to pile in. You get better ideas as to what you’re really capable of doing in a full work day, week, month, and year even. From there, you’re able to modify tasks and manipulate outcomes to reach different goals.
The trust enters the equation as soon as you begin delegating. It’s not something to take for granted because there’s not many people willing to let someone else do something that they themselves were already doing. There’s plenty who doubt that there’s anyone capable of matching their worth ethic or intelligence. I’ll be first to let you know, that’s ego. You can’t plan on being in business for long if that’s the heart and soul of your operation. Trust is a core principle that you absolutely have to follow if you wanna travel, increase your earning potential or spend more time doing the things you actually care about.
All of these have to be part of how you operate instead of unguided freedom because they ultimately create your system. Your system is what you’re gonna have to rely on. It becomes a trademark that defines your brand. If anybody that joins your team is able to do absolutely whatever they want, it likely won’t stick to whatever vision you set out for your company becoming. There’s no structure. Everything will appear aimless and your business will reflect that in inconsistent results (if any) and it won’t sustain profitability.
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