Follow this 7 step recipe to motivating your co-workers or team to take initiative:
- Ask question.
- Listen.
- Ask more questions and reveal what’s at stake for them.
- Share what’s at stake for you.
- Ask for their commitment to a shared outcome.
- Negotiate.
- Check-in to confirm that they’re still committed.
What is to take initiative?
Defining Initiative When you show initiative, you do things without being told; you find out what you need to know; you keep going when things get tough; and you spot and take advantage of opportunities that others pass by. You act, instead of reacting, at work. Most of us have seen initiative in action.
Which is an example of when you showed initiative?
How do you answer ‘Give me an example of when you showed initiative’? You can take your example from your work experience, part-time jobs, a group project or coursework, travels on a gap year or a skills-related extracurricular activity.
How to use your initiative in an interview?
A job interview question about how you’ve used your initiative can be particularly challenging to interpret because The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘initiative’ in a variety of different ways. If you’re not sure exactly what you are being asked at an interview, it’s very difficult to give a confident, impressive answer.
What are examples of people who don’t take initiative?
A type of person who doesn’t take initiative may be someone who is lazy, they don’t think it’s their problem to pick up the glass (or the pen), because they didn’t break the bottle and THEY didn’t leave the pen on the floor… It is the attitude of: I didn’t make the mess, so why should I bother to clean it? Someone else should do it.
Which is the best example of a situation?
I recall a situation from my last job in a warehouse. One of my colleagues did not come for a night shift, and I saw that t he workload was extremely heavy on that day. The remaining workers would struggle to handle the incoming stock and the expedition.
