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 Self-Responsibility
By Greg Tomkins, Behavioural Coach, Superb Coaching
In an environment where it is not
enough to simply strive for increased growth, businesses need to develop
an ethos of commitment within their staff, to develop a sense of pride
in their job. Successful businesses have been shown to have a strong
sense of responsibility within their ranks.
How often have you had the
situation where your staff have come to you with a problem for the
business which they expect you to resolve? They are passing on to you
not just the problem but also the responsibility. This is a trap that
you as their manager have set for yourself. A secret to good management
is to avoid being overly responsible. What your employee has done is to
come to you avoiding all responsibility for the problem, which is likely
to have been within their area, and done near to nothing about it other
than to pass it on to you. They have avoided taking responsibility for
the situation themselves. Self-responsibility would have dictated that
they at least offer up possible approaches to overcome the problem.
Though a sense of
self-responsibility can only be really achieved by the individual
themselves, businesses can play an important role in fostering such an
attitude within its staff. By developing strong leaders within your
business who then provide their staff with opportunities to do the same
possess the greatest opportunity to thrive.
In order that individuals feel
competent to live and worthy of happiness, they need a sense of control
over their existence. This demands that they are willing to take
responsibility for their actions and attainment of their goals, their
life and their well-being.
Essential to developing an
attitude of self-responsibility is to accept the principal that
everything that occurs in your life is the result of a decision that you
have made yourself. No longer can you blame others. No longer can you
expect others to carry your burden. No longer can you pass on the
responsibility to anyone but yourself.
A business can foster such
attitudes in its management and staff in a number of ways. It does
however need to start at the top. It is recognised that by living to a
set of corporate values that promote self-motivation, idea sharing and
personal growth, an organisation will be rewarded by a stronger sense of
self responsibility within its staff
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