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- Consider your company's culture in handling failure. Is it a "cover your ass" organization where people try to distract attention from their own failures by trying to focus attention on their coworkers failures? Has
company reprimanded workers who took initiative and failed in past?
A company that punishes failure will stifle initiative and innovation. Workers won't want to do anything new for fear failure. If a company wants to increase initiative and innovation, they have to reward effort and embrace failure.
Despite these dangers, rewards of taking initiative are great:
- You'll gain skills and knowledge about your company and market it serves, making you a more valuable employee. When economy recedes and company needs to layoff workers, who do you think they'll keep? The individual who is more versatile in different functions of organization.
- You'll achieve more independence when you demonstrate that you have organizations interests in mind and that they can trust your judgment in solving problems.
- You'll gain skills and market knowledge that will make you a more valuable commodity in labor market. Workers who only do their own little job are not aware of opportunities outside their company.
There are dangers in taking initiative at work, but in an organization with a healthy culture, the rewards of taking initiative are great.
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