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 whole-hearted and goal-oriented effort to ensure the success of the organisation, a special kind of personal commitment exists. We call this commitment Employeeship.
When all employees are deeply committed to the survival and development of the organisation 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 attitude and behaviour 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.
Practical Manager is an online service and implementation tool that helps teams and individuals:
- To develop and maintain Employeeship culture
- Focusing on catching people doing things right and sharing positive strokes
- Extraordinary results; by focusing on personal goals (or many times referred to as OKRs) and results-oriented time planning
- Improve performance and personal effectiveness; by focusing on the essence of managerial behaviour.
Avoid trust and commitment gap
Excellent managerial behaviour and result-focused management promote trust. You can create trust and openness 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 for achievements; in other words, by giving strokes.
However, the best stroke you can give is your undivided attention! Thus, online strokes should not replace personal attention and care for others.
Much too often, undivided personal attention is not possible for many reasons: remote working, absence due to travel, distance, work location, project execution, etc. This is where Practical Manager comes in handy.
It provides new ways for sharing strokes and attention and keeping personal, authentic relationships in your team, and with other teams, despite the obstacles. Further, Practical Manager will help you exercise managerial behaviour and focus on what matters most for you to achieve your results.
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 next section.
