What is Employeeship?
Employeeship is what it takes to be a good employee, just as leadership is what it takes to be a good leader.
When an individual makes a wholehearted, goal-oriented effort to ensure the organisation's success, a special kind of personal commitment emerges, we call this commitment Employeeship.
When all employees are deeply committed to the organisation's survival and development and thus demonstrate Employeeship, the organisation can be said to have an Employeeship culture.
Amongst the many elements that characterise a good employee, the following three are essential: responsibility, loyalty, and initiative.
These three overall concepts reflect the attitudes and behaviours of people who are "good employees". People display Employeeship when they:
- "play" for themselves and the "team" to win
- take responsibility for the results of the organisation
- are loyal to the people and goals of the organisation
- take the initiative to improve the organisation's productivity, relations and quality
The success of any organisation is put in the hands of managers and employees equally; therefore, it's their shared responsibility to create a culture of Employeeship and mobilise everybody's energy to win.
Avoid the trust and commitment gap
Leadership, managerial behaviour, and results-focused management promote trust. You can create openness and trust in your team by exercising excellent personal managerial behaviour and by showing undivided attention and positive recognition to others: when you delegate tasks, praise the behaviour or congratulate others for achievements; in other words, by catching people doing things right.
Practical Manager helps you focus on what matters for achieving your personal results and manage your team to achieve the best performance. This is why Practical Manager is the best online tool for your personal and team management.
However, the best recognition you can give is your undivided attention! Thus, online recognition should not replace personal attention and care for others.
In modern organisations, undivided personal attention is not possible for many reasons, including remote work, travel, distance, work location, and project execution.
This is where Practical Manager comes in handy. It provides ways to focus on personal and team goals, share attention, and maintain personal relationships within your team and with other teams, while ensuring thorough implementation.
If everyone in a team is capable and willing to do their best, organisations are more likely to survive and develop in the future. The following model is a framework for creating the winning teams.
You can read about the underlying model, the Will/Can, in the corresponding section.
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