Employee Responsibilities:
Your Role within the Team
- How do you view employee responsibilities compared with employer rights and responsibilities?
- Where does leadership start within your business team?
- Can leadership begin with you?
Improving the team is everyone’s job. Company teams that have a clear understanding of roles work together best.
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There is a misperception that leadership always comes from the top, but you can find leadership anywhere on a team. While ideal if those in management positions always exhibited the greatest leadership characteristics, the reality is sometimes otherwise. Leadership is about the ability to influence, and one gauge that determines your ability to persuade others is your willingness to accept responsibility for your actions.
Management Roles
Perhaps the greatest challenge for management to establish a vision and give the team the opportunity to determine corporate values. When management provides direction and establishes common ground for everyone, it: Instilling concepts of leadership, teamwork and communication allows everyone to remain flexible and adapt during changing circumstances. Leaders who create this type of environment develop teams by encouraging others and enabling their staff to exercise initiative.
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Team Roles
Everyone must share in the overall success. Leadership can be found anywhere on a team but depends on an individual’s willingness to act and accept responsibility for their actions. Formal leadership sets the tone, but those willing to take the initiative and step outside their job description will emerge as informal leaders. A couple of quick responsibility quotes to stimulate further thought:
“"I must do something" always solves more problems than "something must be done."" ~Author Unknown “"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." ~Author Unknown
More on Employer and Employee Responsibilities
Employers
Command authority or command responsibility is a business imperative necessary for creating a team environment.
Employees
Don’t underestimate your role and your ability to influence.
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