Ownership in 2 ways

Ownership comes in 2 ways

1.When an opportunity is given to a person and when he is ready to take the ownership
2.Voluteer by any person to take up new initative

In either case , from the moment the task comes in to some ones hand, there is an enourmous amount of expectation set. The success of the ownership is when, the expectatins are either met or is exceeded.

The completion of the task is directly propotional to the genuine interest of the person driving it as well as on his capability to drive it. So it is extremely important that the ownership is given to the right person. Else it might bring a slow result or some times no result. The good thing is that there is always some thing for every one. It is at this point that the Managers should step in. They should identify the right task and and facilitate the reportee to accomplish the same.For this to happen active discussions should happen in the teams.

What it means to take initiative

Taking initiative is Courage to take challenges beyond the perview of our day to day work. Doing day to day work is business as usual. Taking initative is geving the best to what you are good at outside your day to day work. For example, if you are a good mucisian, you can take initative to build a music brand in the organization.Every individual has his own unique strong points. If every one take concious decision to take initative to explore best in self and there by contribute to others, the power of organization to scale new heights will be enormous.

There are some thumb rule while taking initives

1. Under no circumstance , you should drop the initative
2. No reason for backing out can stand before you, if you are strong like a rock.
3. Your descipline will only make others feel that the initative is rock solid.
4. Take it for granted that, your commitment to the initative will be time tested
5. You commitment will also be tested by others first before they welcome the same.
6. Do your best to add value to your initative.
7. Take it for granted that there will be criticism. Combat it with the belief that you knwo the best on what people criticise- in this case the very own initative.
8. Welcome critisism with an open heart, weed out the emotions and understand the core message, analyze if there is any key takeaway for you, do the mitigation, give the feedback
7. Believe that your initative will be a huge success
8. Believe that like minded people will slowly start accepting you as a leader and will start following you.

How best are we mentored?

Every manager should aquire the skills required mentoring. The mentor should genuinely show interest in the upliftment of their reportees. Mentoring has dual purpose. Firstly for a Manager, it will help in understanding the issues faced by the reportees and help them perform better. Secondly, it will help them to take better decisions as they already created a comfort zone by interracting with the team and understanding the difficultines of the team.Hence decision making is no more head breaking task.

This is the preparation step towards mentoring. Managers should take him to understand an employees feelings before start getting in to serious mentoring. The mentoring should happen not just to get the running project finished. It should be for the over all well being of the employee. Primarily after a mentoring session, the employee should get the confidence to take new challenges.