Approachability is an advantage. Making coaching easy is an advantage. This tool minimizes the effort to manage expectations, manage perceptions, and share helpful feedback across three communication channels.

It’s one thing to identify what a user wants to be able to accomplish. It’s another thing to capture what they consider a chore and want to leave their scope of responsibility.

Don’t rely on HR to define and govern feedback. Own it. Conduct it yourself. Be approachable. Groom it in others. Isolate feedback into three communication channels: email etiquette, meeting etiquette, and deliverable contribution. Neutralize personality conflict. Ask and negotiate “What do you want me to do differently?”

Every week, every team member should share a snapshot of their recent accomplishments and their near-future plans. “Manage up” without “kissing up.”

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your autonomy? Consider tradeoffs of boundaries, centralization, risk, reward, and contingencies. Shape your methodology. Shape your autonomy.

It’s a stretch to say parenting is one of the performing arts. It’s not a stretch to say that the language, habits, and culture of parenting are valuable to innovation. Autonomy, growth, grace, and self-sufficiency only start the list of ways that business learns, benefits, and profits from the art of parenting.

How you see yourself in your market - finances, customer, competition, and the value chain.