Your team keeps asking for your input because they're uncertain, not lazy. Give them clear decision frameworks, cost limits, and authority boundaries. Ask them for recommendations instead of answering their questions.
Are you doing this one thing that's quietly making your team dependent on you? If your team can't seem to do hardly anything you want, it's usually not laziness or ineptness, if that's a word, it's uncertainty. They don't know what good looks like, they don't know the boundaries, and they don't want to get it wrong, so they ask you. And every time you answer instantly, you become their system for getting results. Many of my clients think the fix is to hire better people, but the real fix, and the much cheaper and The simpler fix is giving your team a clearer way to make decisions without you. So give them a decision framework, not a decision. Say, "If it costs under X amount of money and it keeps the customer happy, you decide." Or, "Bring me a recommendation, not a question." Boundaries create independence.
