Taking initiative comes from personality and motivation, not management directive. Do your team members have the ability to take initiative? Or did you get a gr

Taking initiative comes from personality and motivation, not management directive. Do your team members have the ability to take initiative? Or did you get a group of juniors who can’t do much more than take direction? Years of school trains people to follow directions, do as they are told, not think for themselves. What rewards can you offer for those who do take initiative? Do they risk criticism or worse if they do? Do they have agency in their roles? Do they have any reason, financial or otherwise, to invest their effort in trying more?