A practical method of dealing with the situation is by objective setting.

It is a direct reporting relationship implying usual objective setting, supervisory, and performance management relationship that a manager has with direct reporting.

All procedures for objective setting, planning, time keeping or whatever are agreed in the light of the task to be done and the situation.

Typical blockages to objective setting include the following:

People have often had bad experiences with objective setting.

Review and guide corporate strategy, objective setting, major plans of action, risk policy, capital plans, and annual budgets.

Accepting that subordinates need to participate in objective setting since this produces motivation and commitment.

The third step is objective setting where you create specific goals to the enterprise that can be measurable, achievable, time specific and documented.

Which you could link in, target setting and objective setting and so on.

For all areas of spending, we have to improve the quality of spending, from objective setting to impact evaluation.