You don't want to over inspect and become too critical and discourage your leaders from making their own decisions, but in the same way, if you under inspect, your leaders can waste a lot of their time running in the wrong direction, arguing over details, or procrastinating.
Delegation without Inspection leads to Disappointment.
Inspection is absolutely vital to keeping team members moving in the right direction throughout a project. Everything has a natural pull towards chaos, within an organization this is called mission drift, so many roadblocks and detours come up within the life of a project that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep team members on the same page. Inspection fights mission drift. It assesses the direction, speed, and overall progress of the team and project. Inspection also finds weak links. If a team member is not pulling their weight, or working well with the team, inspection will uncover the potential problem before it has the time to destroy the project.
Inspection can be done through weekly update meetings, emails, or simple progress reports.
The key is that inspection is being done on a consistent and clear basis.
Are you inspecting after you delegate? If not, you are asking to be disappointed!
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