Secure leaders vis-à-vis insecure leaders

In a faraway kingdom lived an insecure leader who was about to end his term. So, he said to his underlings: “I want you to highlight all the accomplishments that I did during my term.” His minions were in a quandary on how they would undertake his order because he had nothing to show but his incompetence, arrogance, autocracy and laziness.  

Effective, secure and humble leaders would never be concerned if their accomplishments during their term of office would be noticed or not. Why? Because they are secure with what they have accomplished. They know in their hearts that during their incumbency they had laser like focus on their Mission and Vision for their organization. And they saw to it that they were surrounded with the best intellectual minds that would help them achieve their Mission and Vision. 

On the other hand, insecure leaders will always crave for attention. They would normally do this by using bombastic words or words that would picture them as having a strong character and personality. Insecure leaders are not consultative they would decide based on their whims and caprices without regard for the greater good. What is important for them is they are able to bulldoze their own personal agendas.     

But a leader who is secure in his leadership will not be afraid to make decisions that are unpopular. Because he knows that his unpopular decision will be for the long term welfare of the people under his organization. 

At the end of the day, leaders are not judged by their present actions and accomplishments. They are judged by history and the legacies that they have built and left behind. For example, how they’ve improve the well being of their people, how they were able to enhance the financial wealth of their organization/country. How they’ve fought for the welfare of their people and organization against a bully organization/country and so forth. – Marino J. Dasmarinas

How do you assign work/task to your Work From Home (WFH) employees?

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic work from home arrangement is one of the ways being used by organizations today to continue its operation. But how are you going to assign task to your work from home employees when they are working in the comforts of their homes? When you cannot directly supervise them?  

The best course of action to take here is to remain with the status quo. Your WFH employees will have the same workload as they used to have when they were not yet under the WFH set up. Would this still be achievable? Yes of course! Considering that there’s no more travel time, less preparation to report to the office in the morning and the same applies in the afternoon when going home.   

WFH is the future of work set up and there is no turning back. Whether we like it or not we have to adapt to this new work environment which is very much favorable to the employees and to the organization also.  

The covid-19 pandemic and the availability of hi-tech modes of communications such as the internet has forced all organizations to take a closer look at this WFH set up. But WFH is not new this set up has been going on for quite some time already for some organizations. However this pandemic has forced all organization to harness the usability of WFH arraignments.  

Which they now find very useful, cost effective and practical. To address the many work challenges being presented at the door of all organizations. Primarily influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic and the availability of hi-tech modes of communications. – Marino J. Dasmarinas     

Profit Sharing/stock ownership as method of Motivation

 

Do you want to strengthen the motivation of your employees?  

There are big corporations that offer creative financial schemes for their employees to further motivate them. One of this method is called profit sharing; this is basically the allocation of a certain percentage of the organization’s earning to its employees. Another method is stocks ownership, here employees own shares of stocks in the company where they are working for.  

This is a very viable means for motivation for the reason that workers are entitled to this attractive financial scheme. Who will not work hard if employees are given financial rewards from the net profit of the organization?  Who will not work hard if employees are offered shares of stocks by the company that they are working for? Stocks ownership is actually being undertaken by big corporations worldwide. But on the other hand the globalized economy makes stock ownership quite risky. 

For example, if an economic power such as the United States, China, Japan and other economically powerful nations have a problem with their economy. There is always that risk that your own local stock market would also be affected. And it might result to the devaluation of the value of your local stocks. Nevertheless this is still a good scheme to impress upon the minds of employees that they are valued by their organization.   

How about for small scale businesses can they also offer profit sharing to their workers? Of course they can! This can be done by forging an agreement with employees that they shall be entitled to a certain percentage of an organization’s yearly net profit.  

Profit sharing and stocks ownership are very effective motivational tool that is seldom used by organization. Why? For the simple reason that there are greedy organizations/business owners. They only want for themselves the fruits of their organization; they don’t want to share it with their workforce who plays a big part in the realization of the organizational goals.  

Why not try sharing a percentage of your profit with your employees and why not offer them stocks ownership option? And see how they will plough back this goodwill in terms of their motivation and concern for the well being of the organization.  - Marino J. Dasmarinas