The Leadership Coach™

We Don’t Stay Workers

Posted on 08. Oct, 2008 by Paul Andrew in Leadership, The Leadership Coach™

What a dream team you’d have if everyone on your team was a leader. Not just the person ‘in charge’. Everyone. And by ‘leader’ I don’t mean job title, a swanky office, or the where the buck actually stops. I simply mean the sort of team where everyone takes responsibility, works like it’s their own business, stays ahead of the game, and multiplies themselves by taking people with them on the journey.

Almost everyone starts out as a ‘worker’ on a team (and just quietly, most of those who jump straight into leadership roles are really just workers with responsibility). But I’ve noticed people don’t stay workers forever.

Over time, workers become one of three things-

1. Leaders. They blaze a trail. Run with the vision like it’s their own (because it is). Their impact is measured not by personal performance but by a mass of momentum in others.

2. Leasers. Mercenaries in the workplace, they do what they’re paid to do. It’s about money, benefits, maximised comfort and flexibility, minimised challenge and responsibility. The bulk of many corporate teams.

3. Leavers. Rather than step up or step back, they step aside. And when they leave, they do not leave a hole. Except perhaps in the bottom line.

• So who are you building on? Leaders, leasers or leavers.
• Have you got the courage to lead leaders?
• Don’t forget… you get what you focus on (and reward!)

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