People join companies and leave leaders.. the old adage that puts the responsibility seemingly on the leaders alone. Employee engagement can be compared to the platform of a tripod. Should any one pillar fall short It will impact the engagement levels.
Pillar 3 The employees. Ask not what your company can do for you but what you can do for your company.
It is a two way street, increasingly I find myself thinking about the extent of demand placed on the company and the leaders by employees. Sometimes they are very convincing of their ‘birthrights’ in their arguments. I would just like to remind all of us that there is NO such thing as birth rights.
As per Stephen covey’s 5th principle... You can only control yourself... In other words you can’t make leaders responsible for your welfare. It is your active choice on a daily basis to function in the manner you do.
- Ownership: as staff we need to own our ‘readiness level’. Whilst the leaders can certainly help in boosting our skills and our motivation, they cant do very much till we don’t own it for our selves. Why cant we as employees admit to ourselves and to our leaders that we DON’T know how to do everything to an unknown standard? Till I don’t own and express my skill and motivational level the leaders are only going to be guessing our needs. And then we blame them for getting it wrong .
- Feed back: give and actively seek feedback on your ability to do a job and your interests to do it. we constantly wait for our leadership to give this to us
- Learn to say ‘no’ and I dont know: As you climb the ladder and move along your career path there are bound to be areas you are not proficient in . accepting these tasks / areas in silence only signifies your acceptance so at best will show you are willing and motivated. This also sometimes will confuse the leader in gauging your real ability to do the job.
- Sharpen your saw Stephen covey’s 7th principle.. don’t wait for the company to develop you, what do you do to develop your self not only from a work perspective but as an individual. follow your interests, why should anyone be interested in you when you aren’t interested in your self!!
- Ask for the leadership you need, this is not a revolutionary thought, most times leaders are using a style they believe will help. they use the style based on what you show them
- Adaptive: be adaptive, the only constant in the world is change. With changing times fear is a natural by product and we look to our leaders for direction .. on one hand we do and yet on the other we doubt the motive behind the indtructions / directions. This means we are in actual fact setting our leaders up for failiure. Changing times in an organization are the best to display your adaptive ability .. to make it easier on yourself you have to use point number 2 and 5 very closely and regularly . this way you et your leadership to help you expand your circle of control and comfort zone.
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