Management-Start Creating Autonomous Employees💯

Here I will go over creating autonomous Employees, The ever changing workforce is starting to create a divide when it comes to micro/macro Managing a department or managing autonomous workers. Benefits of autonomous employees is really starting to outweigh Management micro-managing their employees. Companies small and large really need to take a step back and analyze creating an autonomous workplace for their employees. Yes I fully understand not all employees can operate autonomously but there is a great deal of workers and employees that seek this style of working conditions.

What is An Autonomous Worker?🤔

These are the individuals that set their own work environment whether it's remote or at the office or company. Choosing your own tasks, managing your own workload and priorities, seeking solutions to problems on your own, and proactively communicating your progress without needing someone else to check in on you. Also keep in mind there is various levels of autonomous work that can be set by their employer when it comes to this, even though they may be autonomous workers they may need certain access to information to get their job or project done but in a nutshell Autonomous workers need less guidance, support or direction when it comes to their end results.

I think we can almost all agree the current style of Management hasn't changed in about 10 years at most. Just really sit and think about that Management is still trying to get their employees back into the office even if they know work production has soared since remote work came into effect during the crisis we had. Even if Management blamed it on the company someone in Management should had laid out a plan on how this remote work or hybrid work is the new norm, but many didn't. Again I go back to these Smart companies and what would a Smart company do when it comes to autonomous workers. They ran the numbers on this and saw productivity increase during the remote work and then when work life balance really emerged onto the scene Smart company has no choice but to keep a good thing going but implement a SOW a scope of work for these remote workers which in reality these are your autonomous workers all along.

Do We Still Need Management?😱
Yes of course we will still need management to guide non-autonomous employee that need to receive detailed instructions and that will have less decision-making power, often requiring frequent check-ins with a manager to guide their work process, again nothing wrong with that but we can't blend these two type of work ethics together, it wont blend well. Management need to understand the benefits of autonomous worker is one less thing to assist to, most autonomous workers communicate their progress through meetings, one on one or emails, they take ownership of their work and result, they are comfortable making decisions without consulting their manager for every step.

When companies or departments start creating autonomous employees at their workplace they will start to see higher motivation, increased leadership skills, lower employee turnovers and for Management they will have more time to focus on other income-generating tasks for the business.