Trust But Monitor October 19, 2009 by Phil Gerbyshak<http://www.bizzia.com/slackermanager/author/philgerbys/> Filed under Phil Gerbyshak<http://www.bizzia.com/slackermanager/topic/phil-gerbyshak/> <http://www.bizzia.com/slackermanager/trust-but-monitor/#respond>
When I graduated high school, I went into the Navy and worked as a communications technician. I worked with a lot of people in military intelligence, including Navy guys who had the coolest patch for their flight jackets. [image: in_god_we_trust] ** *In God We Trust…All Others We Monitor<http://www.bizzia.com/slackermanager/trust-but-monitor/#> * At the time, I thought it was the way things were. You trusted people, but you monitored them. And now, as a manager, I guess that is the way things are. I trust my team to do things…but I review their work to make sure it’s done right. I attend meetings where people say they’ll do the right things…but then we check in at the next meeting to make sure they got done. I expect my team to take care of customers, but then I ask them how we’re doing whenever I see them. Now that I think about it, I trust but monitor just about everything with my team. ** *Do you trust but monitor or am I just a micromanager?* ** *Image source from Phil Gerbyshak <http://philgerbyshak.com/>’s personal collection* "To accept the legitimacy of opposing viewpoints is not to assume that someone who opposes you is dishonest or willfully blind to the truth." Justice David Souter.
