The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

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Rule 2. Assign the monkey: all monkeys shall be owned and handled at the lowest organizational level consistent with their welfare. A boss and staff member shall not part company until appropriate “next moves” have been identified and specified. Letting go of the reins and handing them over your employees can be a real struggle, and if you want to grow your business, you’ve got to do it.

Do you find yourself asking this question ‘I thought hiring new team members would make my life easier?’ The concept has been called a management fad, and derivative of management by objectives, itself derived from the business planning literature. [7] The dialogue between boss and staff member must not end until ownership of each monkey is assigned to a person. For every ‘Monkey’ there are two people involved, one to perform the next move (usually the subordinate) and one to supervise it (usually the manager).

It offers four simple rules to help leaders become effective supervisors of time, energy and talent – especially their own. These four rules dovetail perfectly with how you run your business on the Entrepreneurial Operating System. The "monkey" in the title is defined as the "next move" and is separate from the project. Allen built on this with his "next action", the next step you can take toward completing a project that has no other steps before it. In "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey", Blanchard offers a system for getting those next moves made by the person at the lowest level in the organization who can carry them out. Doing this frees up discretionary time, which allows managers to build stronger relationships and unleash their employees' genius. It is sometimes challenging for managers to allow team members to take responsibility for their projects and tasks for a myriad of reasons which include:

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The second sign is an enhanced relationship with team members and an improvement in productivity and morale. The manager develops a high level of confidence in the team members and in turn team members feel valued, appreciated and recognized for their contribution. Boss imposed: being sure your boss is up to date on what you’re doing and keeping them in the loop. Fail: they will take more of your time by requiring meetings and updates more often. Succeed: they will require less of your time by you consistently keeping them up to date and building trust with them so they’re not blind-sighted. Leads to seeming insubordination. In Onken’s Rules of Monkey Management, the One Minute Manager details exactly how this liberation can take place with elegance, simplicity and most importantly, peace of mind for the manager.