Managers cite lack of time as the #1 challenge for not regularly providing guidance, feedback, and next steps to their direct reports. The irony is that undermanagement is far more time-consuming than consistently delivering these leadership basics.
The managers who are most convinced they don’t have time to deliver on the basics spend more time managing than anyone else. That’s because undermanagement leads directly to unnecessary performance problems, requiring managers to disengage from their own work, step in, and firefight. Firefighting is a frequent indicator that undermanagement is causing the time drain a manager experiences.