When I make presentations about our Business strategy workshops and the Organisational renewal workshops to the business owners, we ask: what is your major challenge in your organisation? Four out of five owners say that, their people do not take ownership of what they do – they do not take the company as their own. In spite of the reward offers and exposure to opportunities, the people do not give their best. They do not have positive attitude towards the company.
Of course there are many reasons for such lack of involvement of people in business. One of them is lack of interest in the job, the function, the process etc. Usually the hiring managers in business give more importance to the knowledge, skills and abilities of a job candidate than to the interest part. There are intelligent and academically brilliant candidates who can overwhelm the hirers by their sheer scholasticism and articulation. But when it comes to completing the jobs with heart’s touch such candidates may take a back seat. It is because the job holder get things done by their smartness and not by their interest in it.
The term interest is used to indicate a mental disposition towards something real or abstract. The way of interest is the way of the heart. The people hirers must give priority to interest patterns of the candidate than to the skills, abilities and the experience. If the interest is their, the other things can be acquired than vice versa. Interest is a natural energiser and when it is connected to business, there is overall goodness - the ownership blossoms.
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