What are the Advantages of Self Management?
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ADVANTAGES :
• Accountability Reduces Costs. ...
• Remain Focused on Business Outcomes. ...
• Resourcefulness and Initiatives Driven. ...
• Conflicts are Resolved Internally. ..
•Flexible, Demand-Driven Roles. ...
• Cross-Skilled Specialists. ...
• Retain Knowledge in the Business. ...
• Identifies Skills Weaknesses.
A Consciousness Accelerator
Without a shadow of a doubt, this is the number one benefit I have seen. The most remarkable thing about implementing the structure is that it facilitates and accelerates the shift in consciousness of those involved. It does that by ‘forcing’ people to confront all of the shadow issues that lie behind an ego-centred level of consciousness. It’s a difficult and painful process – whether you’re doing it through a self-managed business or not – and it is not for everyone. Many souls do not ever want to go past the first tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and are content without plunging into the challenge of second tier consciousness. But if you are ready to act – self-management structures unquestionably help you on that path.
True Self Responsibility
A natural part of putting yourself into a consciousness accelerator is developing true self responsibility. Where you work at your personal self development and become the best possible version of yourself you can be. When the constraints of the ego are mastered. You take total responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, actions. You learn courage and conviction.
Creative Thinking & Innovation
You have to work harder at creative thinking and problem solving, because you can’t hand the responsibility back to a more senior manager, as you would in a traditional hierarchy. Every single one of the companies I visited have gone on to create new companies, new offshoots as well as completely new businesses. All because the individuals have learned the confidence and courage to be entrepreneurial. They have developed The Opportunity Mindset.
Autonomy + Freedom = Accountability
Within the framework that’s laid out, and aligned to the organisational mission, individuals who works in self-managed teams have much more autonomy and freedom to act. Yes, there is the freedom to decide your own salary. Yes, there is the freedom to decide how you will work and when. Yes, there is the freedom to decide what work you want to do, and leverage your own unique talents. Yes, there are choices about when you will take leave instead of rigorous annual leave rules. But they don’t come without a trade-off. You sign a commitment to your colleagues and your company about your responsibilities that clearly outlines what you will deliver. So you can’t simply swan off for 12 weeks holiday if that damages your colleagues and the business. You have to find a solution that works, and sometimes you also have to pay for it. With autonomy and freedom comes radical responsibility.
Radical Transparency
This is a world of no secrets. No hidden agendas and no politicking. In self-managed businesses people learn to share knowledge and resources. No-one hangs onto a juicy bit of information because it might make them look better than someone else or because they fear that if others have that knowledge there might be more competition for them. In knowing the financial status of the company in detail, everyone is much more invested in the success or failure of the company. When everyone knows what everyone else is doing and what their commitments are, they all pull together towards the company mission much more easily.
Co-Creative Collaboration
When you can drop the neo-Darwinian idea that competition is necessary for survival, you open up a collaborative mindset which means can you ask another team (and often another business) for help. You can temporarily recruit a member of another team who might do a task better than your team. It’s completely up to you how you put your teams together for each piece of work you are going to do. This attitude seems to open up self-managed organisations to strategic collaborations with other businesses, especially where there is a critical performance issue to be tackled. Like finding one single plastic for the whole world.
Exponential Experimentation
Because there are few text books or case studies for this next step in organisational design, it becomes an experiment to implement it. Everything gets discussed and tested. Organisational design is an iterative learning process. A key benefit of operating in experimentation mode, is that you learn to be comfortable with uncertainty – like most entrepreneurs do with their eyes closed. With an experimentation culture you design an organisation generatively, just like nature does.
Empathetic Communicators
To build the kind of relationships that truly foster collaboration and team building, you have to work on your communications skills. Emotional intelligence is key, but spiritual intelligence is also important. Great leaders in self-managed businesses understand the different communications patterns, behaviour and language of people with different worldviews, different cultural heritage, as well as being sensitive to gender, character and personality.
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