members. So I'm going to share with you a few specific things you can begin doing to create more independent team members and gain back some margin of time for yourself. Commit to developing a more independent team If you feel like you're being interrupted too frequently by your employees or get frustrated by their lack of self-management, it's because you've trained them (mostly unknowingly) to do so. It's easy to get caught in the trap of feeling like because they need you, it's a meaningful use of time. But in reality, their dependence on you is why you're losing so much productivity during the day. It comes from a lack of processes, setting parameters and taking the time to assign responsibilities and ownership that would allow them to more consistently operate on their own. To fix this situation, you need to commit to retraining yourself and your team on a new way of interacting with each other. The goal is to establish a clear understanding of which types of events or issues warrant your attention, and which your team should be handling without you. To get them in this habit, you need to invest the time and energy to train and empower them.