@adrienne

In honor of today's /word-a-day which is conformity, I'm resharing a leadership model I wrote about a few years ago An environment with too much conformity feels stifling, employees are doing work that they have to do, while not seeing any real value in it - things like status reports, time tracking, (I'm sure you can find an example in your workplace - it exists everywhere). Leaders of high performing teams reduce conformity as much as possible. The two easiest levers to pull are either: -- increase responsibility; give the employee ownership of a goal (an outcome), and give them the freedom to achieve it without telling them how (conformity) -- increase clarity; some tasks that feel like conformity is only because the employee perceives their work has little value, if you can explain how their work is important and how it fits into the greater efforts of the organization, it makes the work more palatable

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