Management Consulting - If you don't understand authorization, you can't manage well, and it's useless to be exhausted to death

Most managers know that empowerment is the most motivating factor for employees, but in actual work, the phenomenon of "managers are busy and subordinates have nothing to do" often occurs .

This is not a small problem, and managers don't necessarily create more value for their teams by working hard. Sometimes it is even difficult to get the subordinate's understanding, on the contrary, it is constantly complaining, especially for those subordinates who really want to exercise and improve themselves at work, the manager does this, which will undoubtedly greatly hinder their development space and restrict themselves. ability enhancement.

Cui Jianjian is the planning director of a company. Every time he talks about the current situation, he always scratches the thinning hair on the top of his head, stares at me with eyes that make people feel as if he never gets enough sleep, and says, "I've been busy lately, and on the other hand, I'm planning new product launches, product positioning, Advertising creativity, press release writing, listing event design, material production, etc.; on the other side is touring the market, formulating promotional plans, media buying and executing promotional activities... Well, in short, just one word - 'busy' ."

"Brother, don't you still have eight or nine soldiers?"

"They? They have things to do, and there are things they can't do..."

And that's not the case.

When Cui Jianjian sat in front of the computer for hours at a time, his subordinates had already browsed several newspapers and then watched an NBA live broadcast on the Internet.

Why didn't Cui Jianjian divide the work at hand to his subordinates? Why not assign some market research tasks to subordinates? Why not ask your subordinates to prepare in advance for some of the work they are sure to do in the future?

In order to formulate a market management system, Cui Jianjian was about to scratch his scalp, his subordinates had finished chatting about domestic stars' lace news, and began to shift the topic to the love between Beckham and his wife, the hot girl. .

Why didn't Cui Jianjian allow himself to stop for a while, call his subordinates together, and work together to make this thing better? His subordinates are enjoying the air-conditioning, eating snacks, and chatting in the office ...why don't they hand over some aspects of the work to the subordinates? Rather than saying that the employees are incompetent, it is better to say that they do not know how to empower themselves.

Generally speaking, people have enterprising spirit and a sense of achievement. The higher the position, the greater the power, and the more resources you have, the more likely you are to do better. For subordinates who have done a good job in a certain aspect, they can be appropriately given higher powers. In this way, once they get a sense of achievement, they will naturally invest more enthusiasm and mobilize more resources to make better results. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, it is difficult to implement due to various limitations. Failed managers do not give subordinates decision-making power, and control subordinates, so that subordinates have no chance to stand out. The difference is simple, good managers help subordinates grow, bad managers hinder the growth of subordinates; good managers serve subordinates, and bad managers control subordinates.

Without authorization, managers can only be exhausted to death. Responsibility and power are inseparable twin brothers. To make employees responsible for their work, they should be given corresponding powers. If the manager is not at ease and the appointment is not authorized, the employees will be in a state of dilemma in the process of completing the task: either they ask for instructions in every detail, so as to delay the fighter; Psychological, sabotage, and even shirk responsibility. From the perspective of the enterprise, managers who do not understand authorization are incompetent and cannot manage well.