Converts or Disciples

One test of an Ownership Culture is whether your employees are converts or disciples.

Convert:  Listens and might believe what is taught, but they are not passionate about those beliefs or make decisions based on them.  Activity takes the place of taking responsibility for doing their best and having a passion for doing what is right.

Employees become converts to your company when they accept your job offer.

Disciple:  Passionate about achieving results, goes the second mile, leaves things better than they found them, and does what is best for their company.  

Disciples are followers who develop the behaviors and beliefs of their teacher and people in their group.  This means to mature a convert into a disciple means you have to consistently set a good example, patiently teach, give them authority to achieve results, and surround them with other top performers.

Disciples change the world and their thrill is the experience of serving a cause greater than themselves.  

Converts think they change the world, but make little lasting impact, but they want the full rewards for their activities.

REMINDER:  An Ownership Culture is an organization of excellence, NOT a company that has a few superstar employees or pockets of excellence.  We achieve this by helping "converts" develop to their full potential as "disciples."

Meeting Ideas

Do you have a strong enough culture for your converts to develop into disciples?

Remember, your company culture is the only thing your competitors cannot steal or copy.  It is defined by employee behavior.

Here is a quick test:

1. What are the three biggest problems you have with employees - including everyone in leadership?
2. What is the monthly and annual cost of each one of those problems?
3. How much time would it take for you to resolve each problem - one your own versus working with a third party who has expertise working with companies like yours?
4. Schedule these changes.  If you are not willing to work on them NOW (that's my High D speaking), then what is the cost of waiting?
5. Can you really afford to wait?