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What are Standards

Checking In vs. Checking Up

If you’re a leader, setting and communicating clear, inspiring store goals is hard enough. Giving people real self-sufficiency in deciding how to achieve those goals is even harder. Perhaps the most important thing you can do is to adopt a mindset of “checking in” with your employees rather than “checking up” on them . If you are mostly asking employees whether they finished this task or that task, then you are checking up on them. If you are constantly monitoring how people achieve their goals, then you are checking up. This classic micromanagement style, makes people feel that their judgment, talents, and skills are not valued . As a result, it kills both motivation and creativity.