What are Self-Managing Teams-

Metadata

• URL: https://medium.com/analysts-corner/what-are-self-managing-teams-f009616a872c
• Published Date: 2022-04-25
• Author: [[Kevin Bendeler]]

Highlights

• mesh organizations, where the responsibilities and accountabilities are shared among team members.
• A self-managed team is a group of employees that’s responsible and accountable for all or most aspects of producing a product or delivering a service.
  • A self-managed team carries out supporting tasks, such as planning and scheduling the workflow and managing annual leave and absence, in addition to technical tasks.
• -highly successful- organizations like Zappos, Google, and Meta, teams can come up with their own goals.
• increases their responsibilities to another level as they are making a strategic impact, directly.
• but the pay-off is highly engaged teams.
• leadership is still very much valued in self-managing teams.
  • people still need guidance, support, an outside perspective,
  • Keep removing obstacles that keep the team from running itself successfully.
• Our work is empirical in nature. We discover what to do, by doing it.

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