I try to give my worker quite a bit of autonomy. Probably too much at times. I think he gets frustrated that I don't help him more, but I was a one man shop for a long time and learned pretty much everything I know the hard way. I'm always willing to give him advice, but I'd like him to try to figure things out on his own first.
I expect my teams to bring me solutions not problems, but I've had to teach them that, to empower them along the way and give them the trust, support and ability to think with that mindset; it's also meant I've had to accept failures on many levels, that's part of the process. I've never been comfortable making them learn by themselves though as in my line of work, especially in the past, can have catastrophic effects.
It comes down to the situation though and that's when the leader needs to determine the best way forward and then lean into it.
That makes a lot of sense. We aren't really dealing with much mission critical stuff here.
Yeah, I understand, I was just speaking generally. We each have our situations so need to play it the appropriate way; the same principles apply usually.