This video is nearly 11 minutes long and I highly recommend that whoever you are and what job role you have that you stop what you’re doing and watch this.
It contains so many nubs of brilliance I could probably write a whole book about it! At the same time, there’s a few points to note where you don’t want to take certain aspects to extremes either, see below once you’ve watched the video for some extra tips…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Engagement
Being self-directed and autonomous is not the same as the line manager ignoring staff and expecting them to just get on with things with no interaction at all. Employees still need to know what is expected of them and how they can measure how successful they are. Depending on what kind of strengths individuals have they may require more or less interaction with their manager. For some autonomy will be about being creative and innovative from the get go, for others it’s simply being allowed to follow the processes and systems without being micromanaged.
Reward
Remember that as soon as you are dealing with the type of role and employee where they are really using their brains (and often hearts and souls too!) that the key to reward to so speak with individuals to assess what do they want… The key to the success of these experiments seems to have been that people got out of the way and let and/or facilitated the participants get on with the task. There may be other variables in play when dealing with ‘business as usual’ with large bonuses at stake.
My advice? Be open and honest and above all fair. Don’t ask your staff to do something and then prevent them from doing it because of their line manager not being on board, conflicting priorities or other obstacles getting in the way.
Mastery and Purpose
As I keep saying… “Business IS Peronal”.
If you really want to increase performance through motivated staff then help them to discover what they’re really good and then let then do it. Believe me – the results will probably surprise you! Let me define strength. It’s something that is a talent + skill/knowledge + appetite. That means that no matter how competent a person is at something, it won’t be a strength if they don’t enjoy doing it… Stop and think about that. People can get burnt out doing something that they’re wonderfully good at but that leaves their soul drying out like the Sahara Desert.
Often people spend years looking to discover their purpose. I say discover your strengths first and when you put that together with what you love to do, in the environment you love to do it then you may well just hit the jackpot!
The problem with this in many organisations is that job role and competency and appraisals systems have been designed more with the factory mentality instead of the typical strengths and personality types that tend to go together. Hence you get a lot of people being great at 30-50% of their job role and constantly trying to catch up on the rest. Think about it…
Change
You may look at this video and read these comments and think what’s the point. STOP! Amazing things can happen when approached in the right way. You’re maybe stuck in the middle of it thinking too many things have to change and you wouldn’t even know where to start. Perhaps you need an outside perspective?
Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see”.
Everything starts with ourselves, first with the germ of an idea and then action fanning the flames… Take action now and get in touch.
I’d be happy to help with a brief chat to help you discover the best direction at this time….
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They flourish in capital systems, or at the very least, are neutral towards them, allowing “this” to be achievable in a capitalist system. Some of the big ones even get companies to sponsor them to alleviate high costs. For example, e-sports started out with like-minded people that loved doing what they did, but they had to pay out of their own pockets for it. Today, they now get payed for doing what they love, though it is still relatively meager, but now many can enjoy it, instead of a few.
what are you saying?
Charity. Non-profit groups. Clubs. etc.
“It says money only motivates you to do useless things, things that a machine could and should do.”And it’s wrong to that extent.Of course, it doesn’t actually say that at all, though.
Technocracy.
amazing love your videos…..one thing that was excluded slightly i believe was “your passion” when you love something, it drives you to want to do more
Anyone can see that all the money sloshing about is controlled by a tiny minority of people.The only way to get a horse to pull a cart is to whip it and feed it.If you no longer need the horses, they can hopefully find their own food and more importantly, not get whipped.How do we all get enough money, food, shelter, fuel etc live our lives, when we live in a system that makes some people rich?It’s all possible if we can just reverse humanity about 5000 years and look at the role of money?
None of this can ever be achieved in the capitalist system. Organize.
RSA Animate and MIT: Making the world a better place for free.
All human beings existing on this planet should see this video
And also anything related to The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project.
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Read Ricardo Semler’s books (Maverick, the seven day Weekend). Same story, successful story.
What an amazing video! I’m just surprised that it’s taken the mainstream so long to catch on to this fact. And I agree about the all seeing eye. Almost seems there IS no escaping it…or is there?