From Employees to Empowered Owners From Managers to Impactful Leaders, We Become Self-Driven Teams
- Laura Romero
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 5, 2023
As part of YellowSeeds Creative Coaching and Consulting Services, one of our Seed Service is Empowering Virtual Teams. In the previous post I talked about how to create Team Social Contracts to work from Home and how to handle resistance to change.
Now I would like to share my thoughts about the Future of Work. When we talk about it, a lot of pressure usually goes to leaders, but a lot of it resides in individuals too. There is some kind of expectation that leaders might have the role of leading by example, but the individuals of the team are key players as well.
As Individuals we should stop waiting for Leaders, CEOs, or Presidents to be the change we want to see, we should take our role in this play.
What is the future of an Employee? An Empowered Owner
Individuals will become empowered owners instead of employees. When I use the term empowered owners, I mean to start playing your role as an owner. Start seeing your role as a business inside another business. Working from home has given us a lot of freedom and independence, Are you ready for it?
For a team working from home, we can’t still be chasing down for someone who is not showing up in a meeting without a reason. Would you not show up to a client meeting, if you own your business?
I invite all individuals who wants to work from home to reflect on:
- Can you drive your role independently and fully responsible of it?
- Can you handle the routine associated to it, as you would do with your own business?
- What would you change now, if your role would be your own business?
In an hypothetical case that tomorrow your company says that they will contract you by project instead of permanently, do you have a good business around your expertise?
What is the future of Managers? An Impactful Leader. Or a colorful one, as I like to call them.
Command and Control Managers will become Impactful Leaders, because with empowered owners as team members, leaders will not need to command and control anyone, their team is self-driven. They will take a different role as a facilitator or a coach, someone who is there for them only when needed, who facilitates their role and career but doesn’t own the last word of it. Impactful Leaders won't have power of decision making over anyone or anything, because you have other owners in the team to make a collective decision.
I invite all individuals who might have a valid concern about the teams working from home to reflect on:
- Do you need the individuals to accomplish a number of hrs connected or
- Do you need them to deliver what they said so?
Impacftul leaders will spend less time on transitional tasks (as command and control managers were used to) to spend more time on inspiring and motivating, sparking creativity (orange), driving change and coaching (violet), visualizing the future services (blue), communicating transparently (sky blue), sharing their expertise (yellow), connecting emotionally with teams (pink), inspiring well being (green) and handling issues and removing road blockers (red).
How would your role as a Leader change, if you work with empowered owners as team members?
What is the future of Teams? Teams will become self-driven. The ignition to move from competition to cooperation.
When a team is shaped by individuals who run their role as a small business, they build partnerships between them. They come up with their own goals as a team and everyone understand their contribution to it. They spoke from business owner to business owner, understanding what they need from each other.
In self-driven team, there is cooperation instead of competition. Competition has its root cause, insecurity. When an individual is self aware of his/hers capabilities, he/she stops competing, start sharing his/hers talents and appreciates other’s talents, that is how cooperation starts.
This is how I see the future of work, but I am not waiting for anyone to creating it for me. I am doing my part.
Stay colorful!
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