How can I create ownership in my team?
People sometimes ask me the question “how do I create ownership amongst people in my team or Connect group?” Like any question there is never one single answer, but rather a network of things we can do.
But let me focus on one thing : "Don’t just give away tasks, give away jobs”
If in your team you have a task called ‘buying a bowl of apples for the information desk’ - you can give that as a task to someone. This means it goes on a rosta and when it is my turn on the rosta I go and buy the apples. I don’t necessarily own it, or own the purpose of the team, I simply help out by buying the apples.
Whilst this is a good entry point for helping people begin to serve, what is much better for ownership is to give this as a job to one person.
Now a person in the team has a job, it’s their