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The Oncken Freedom Scale
In my work with managers, excecutives, and leaders, I have found this
scale a heuristic that enables you to make a "snap judgment" about the
managerial capability of a person.
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IF a person has to wait until he’s told, assuming
neutral culture (more on that later), they won’t ever be able to
manage much, except themselves and even in those cases, not very
optimally. -
A managerial mentality emerges with the 2nd Level
in the Oncken Freedom Scale. Therefore, the first level of managing
one’s self well (a key to managerial capability) and perhaps others,
is open. -
These people are special and are almost always
capable of innovating at the serial level of capability in the
Jaques capability system of Requisite Organization (RO) The reason
being, that in order to innovate, you must have capability to
recommend, which means you are doing process analaysis on your own. -
At this level, we can see people who CAN put two
and two together, which means they have the capability to possess
the 2nd and 3rd levels of freedom, can take a perspective on their
perspective and move to best advice, or what I call dialogue outside
of the RO System, -
At this level, the person becomes capable of
working on and running a business at level five in the RO System,
because they realize that acting on their own is critical, but also
as valuable is their ability to help their managers manage because they
routinely inform them about what is really going on, without having
to be asked.
In this way, the Oncken Freedom Scale gives us a
heuristic of making very quick judgments about capability to confirm what
we already know has been demonstrated and what we are likely planning to
do with our subordinates.
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Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing
consulting, coaching, mentoring and advising as methods to offer
developmental scaffolding for aspiring leaders who are interested in
being, doing, having, becoming, and contributing… to helping people
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