{"id":2564,"date":"2011-10-17T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/journal\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:29:35","slug":"mastery-and-purpose-must-exist-before-employees-can-be-empowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2011\/10\/17\/mastery-and-purpose-must-exist-before-employees-can-be-empowered\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastery and purpose must exist before employees can be empowered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<strong>By William Seidman<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Anand Pillai<\/strong> is global head of talent transformation at HCL Technologies. \u00a0In the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/21\/why-more-managers-need-to-relinquish-control\/?section=magazines_fortune&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmagazines_fortune+%28Fortune+Magazine%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why more managers need to relinquish control<\/a><\/strong> Pillai lays out three principles to the &#8220;open source&#8221; management model:\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>Transfer the responsibility of change from the CEO to the company&#8217;s employees<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Create a culture of inclusiveness<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Be transparent with your employees<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe language of managers \u201crelinquishing control\u201d suggests the core of the problem. It is expecting managers to give people \u201cautonomy\u201d BEFORE they or the organization are confident that the results will be positive.\n\nIn our experience creating high performing organizations, there are two conditions required before management will empower people. First, <strong>there must be alignment on the core \u201cpurpose\u201d of the organization.<\/strong> This is much more than the typical mission statement but is instead a compelling statement of the social good the organization hopes to achieve. If there is alignment on purpose, management can trust that people will do the right thing and are more comfortable giving up control.\n\nSecond, <strong>people must be good at their jobs (mastery)<\/strong>. When management believes that people are doing the right thing and can do the work well to achieve the big picture desired outcome, it\u2019s easy to yield control to the team.\n\nImagine situations where neither of these two conditions exist \u2013 i.e. people don\u2019t know what they should be driving toward and aren\u2019t very good at their job. Would you empower them? I doubt it. 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