Focusing on the person - the primacy of the individual

There are no teams!

There are no departments. There are no business units. There are no customers and there are no suppliers.

There are, however, individuals who comprise all of the above!

The human person.

It is the human in management that must take primacy at all times.

Teams don’t under perform – individuals in teams underperform and when such mediocrity is tolerated, over time, it becomes the norm and that’s how teams fail.

For, in every grouping of individuals, there are those that perform and those that don’t.

Individuals need to have a sense of purpose. Who have to be given accurate assignments and then constant regular feedback on how they are performing to those assignments.

They need to know how those assignments, when executed, well help achieve the organisation’s goals.

These individuals need to be rewarded by what they deem to be value. For some it’s money, for others just an opportunity to work and contribute, for even others a sense of belonging.

And here’s where it gets interes…