What are your co-workers able to do?
Some are able to, but they can’t. Some aren’t able to, but want too. They’re both very much alike.
In organisations, there’s often a need for people to take responsibility. More often than not, there are people able to take that responsibility. People who’re ready to do the work and go the extra steps. People who can be a bit more of themselves.
More often than not, there are people who want to take take the responsibility. People who for whatever reason want to be a bit more. Who might seek the glory, the money or the reference. People who might feel the need to grow in to responsibility.
These two groups aren’t always the same. In fact, there’s nothing pointing to that they should be. But the organisation needs them to be the same people.
Whatever the reason might be, the people who want too but aren’t able have been taught that they should. They’ve been taught that they’re able to do something that they just aren’t. They need to be taught otherwise, just as much as they need to be taught how they can become able.
The people who are able need to be motivated. They need incentives to want. That incentive isn’t just money ore more holiday days. It might just as well be more responsibility that the organisation initially offers. It might be flowers on their desk. And it’s the organisations’ responsibility to learn that motivation.
Leadership is just that. Finding motivation in your colleagues and co-workers. And finding out who’s able to do the things that are required to be done.