Do your team members know the extent and limits of the boundaries for them to display their initiative to get the work done? This might be dealing with customers, stakeholders, prioritizing their work, or designing better ways to complete their work. If people are unsure of their boundaries, they freeze and do nothing except become reactive. Communicating the boundaries of when initiative is welcome, and when it is not, creates a sense of psychological safety for people at work to be empowered. This presentation explores what the leader needs to do (and not do) to develop these boundaries and the expectations necessary for independent judgment to flourish.

1. Managing the Boundaries of
Initiative at Work
Dr Tim Baker
www.winnersatwork.com.au

2. Dr. Tim Baker

3. How do I get my team
to show initiative in
certain situations & to
follow established
processes in other
situations.

4. The proactive paradox
Strategies for managing the
boundaries of initiative
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6. Proactive Paradox Process

7. Agreement
Skepticism
Confirmation
Three Stages of the
Proactive Paradox Process

8. Shared purpose
Boundary management
Information exchange
Proactive accountability
Four Proactive
Strategies

9. Three
choices …
Decisions that follow a process
Decisions that can either
follow a process or where
initiative can be displayed
Decisions where initiative is
expected

10. After Action
Review (AAR)
 What did you do well?
 What was not done well?
 What will you do differently next
time?

12. Promoting Agility In
Teams To Boost High-
Performance
Dr Tim Baker
Fri, July 30, 2021
11:30am – 12pm AEST
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/promoting-agility-in-teams-to-boost-high-
performance-tickets-148869656149

13. RRP: $40 + postage
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