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Why Your Team Doesn't Take Ownership (And What Causes It)

Why Your Team Doesn't Take Ownership (And What Causes It)16 aug12 min

<p><strong>Why Your Team Doesn&#39;t Take Ownership (And What Causes It)</strong></p><p>Most service business owners have said some version ofthis: I&#39;ve got good people, they work hard, but nothing moves unless I push it.</p><p>It&#39;s easy to read that as a people problem. Usually itisn&#39;t. A team that has stopped taking ownership has almost always been taught to stop, by the way the business is run.</p><p>In this episode, Rich breaks down what ownership actuallyis, the four things that quietly kill it, and what genuinely starts to change it.</p><p> </p><p><strong>In this episode, Rich covers:</strong></p><p>• The difference between compliance and ownership, andthe simple test that tells them apart</p><p>• Why accountability without authority guarantees peoplewill check everything with you first</p><p>• How rescuing your team teaches them to hold on lesstightly</p><p>• Why shared accountability usually means nobody owns it</p><p>• What to do the next time someone makes a call you wouldnot have made</p><p>• The Reflection Question of the Week </p><p>This is episode two in The Leadership Ceiling series,for service business owners who want a team that brings them positions, not questions.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Work with Rich: </strong><a href="https://www.everettcoaching.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>everettcoaching.com</strong></a></p>