My job is to teach them ways to work and manage their workloads and projects (as well as the skillsets of the trade). They are wasting their own time and mine by taking that tactic.
So yes, if they are clearly trying to shirk ownership of their projects and tasks and pass the buck that is on them.
Project deliverables are just one component of my job. Fostering skillsets and career progression are others.
If someone wants to try and be clever by purposefully being obtuse and shirking responsibility, that is 100% on them. I grant them the freedom of manuervability and decision making to not do that. They are in charge of their own destiny in that way.
And to be clear I have only had maybe 1-2 people that really brought that to their finish line. Most times as soon as we have some type of talk and communication opens of what I’m trying to do and why, it works out.
I get that this place is very anti-management. But the reality is in most orgs you do need some level of hierarchy and leadership.
So yes, if they are clearly trying to shirk ownership of their projects and tasks and pass the buck that is on them.
Project deliverables are just one component of my job. Fostering skillsets and career progression are others.
If someone wants to try and be clever by purposefully being obtuse and shirking responsibility, that is 100% on them. I grant them the freedom of manuervability and decision making to not do that. They are in charge of their own destiny in that way.
And to be clear I have only had maybe 1-2 people that really brought that to their finish line. Most times as soon as we have some type of talk and communication opens of what I’m trying to do and why, it works out.
I get that this place is very anti-management. But the reality is in most orgs you do need some level of hierarchy and leadership.