This is a YouTube video titled "Ownership cannot be assigned, it has to be taken #leadership #shorts" containing a leadership talk or motivational message recorded in July 2024. The speaker discusses the concept of ownership in teams, emphasizing that ownership must be taken rather than assigned, and suggests leaders foster ownership by asking guiding questions rather than providing solutions directly.
As leaders, we can assign responsibility, and we should. We can even assign accountability, but we cannot assign ownership. Ownership has to be taken. But what can we do as leaders to create an environment where more people are apt to take that ownership? One way to do that is not by solving other people's problems, but by asking them questions to help them come to our own conclusion. They're coming to you, your team members, coming to you, because they have a problem to solve. But the last thing we want to do is give them the answer. Asking them questions like, what's working? What's not working? Why do you believe it's not working? The questions need to be yours, but they're designed to take them from the problem to thinking about their own solution. That's just one simple way of creating an environment where more people on your team will start to take real ownership.
