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When teams become dependent on manager decision-making

My team keeps asking me to make decisions I don't think I should be making alone, but when I try to get their input they either defer back to me or give me answers they think I want to hear. I'm starting to realize I've accidentally trained them to avoid taking ownership and now I don't know how to untrain that without admitting I've been doing management wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've taught your team to lean on you for everything, and fixing it means admitting it's your fault.

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