This week’s Serious Soft Skills podcast explores the soft skill of working independently, or with minimal supervision, and how it fosters better teams and trust.

Cohosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham, authors of The 55 Soft Skills That Guide Employee and Organizational Success, talk about a variety of aspects of this soft skill, including:

Letting go of micromanagement

The idea of ownership of projects and knowing when to share a project or take it to completion ourselves

Strategies for ensuring independence and appropriate intervention

The tug-pf-war between independence and either delegating or drawing on others

Independence varies by role and by supervisory style

Where entrepreneurs can overcome inherent independence to ensure greater success

The power of proper delegation

How we can take monkeys and push them away to get work done

Working with minimal supervision

How to ensure that minimal supervision yields maximum results

How more meetings may enable greater employee independence

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Next week

Next week, we will explore the soft skill of being able to work under pressure. Relax, we will make it easy. Look for new episodes every Wednesday. 

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