Manage by exception
If the job is on track, and on schedule, managing by exception means that the person does not have to report back to you.
If you don’t hear from him, you can assume that everything is going well. The individual only has to report back to you when an exception occurs and there is a problem with getting the job done on time, to the agreed upon level of quality.
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