vol·un·teer
/ˌvälənˈtir/
noun
· a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.
We recruit people and hope they become good employees and often forget that they essentially volunteered for the role. We employ them within the context that they are paid to do a job, but that doesn't mean that we should take them for granted. In fact, if you consider them as volunteers, then you should do everything to make them happy that they did in fact volunteer. If you look at it this way, the concept of servant leadership makes excellent sense - where we do things to meet their needs and improve the chance that they'll stay. The best way to do that is to be actively engaged with them every day, exchanging ideas, listening to their needs, and making them want to be engaged in return. Never ignore the value that they bring to your team. Look at it as making a monetary and an emotional investment that can pay dividends every day. That's what it takes to get your employees to freely offer to take part in your enterprise and their work today.
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005): Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.
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