Loose cannons-individuals who have been given (or falsely assume they have) a broad degree of control over their jobs, even though their low competence level causes them to experience performance problems. These individuals cause senior managers to add additional controls and check points.
Strategically empower lose cannons through the following steps:
• Prior to your meeting, identify [...]

Create consequences that support desired performance. Make certain that the performance consequences you’ve put in place support the types of behavior you are trying to encourage from your team. To examine the performance consequences that you’ve put into place for your team, take the following steps:
1. Identify an area in which you are not getting [...]

Send congruent messages. After successfully challenging your team’s limits, you need to send your team clear signals about the types of performance that you are looking for from them and then get out of their way. This is especially important when the performance expectations for your team are rapidly changing. When the messages you send [...]