But what is your job?

To only complete the tasks you’ve been assigned? To merely execute the portion of the plan for which you will be held accountable?

Or is your job more than the title on your business card or in your signature block?

Is it your job to:

• Do all you can to ensure others in your company succeed?
• Bring out the best in everyone else (especially in moments of conflict)?
• Speak up when things are going well – and when they’re not?
• Give peers feedback?
• Anticipate and respond to unanticipated challenges?
• Ensure teammates are accountable to the plan?

A job is defined by roles and responsibilities.

• Your role to which you are accountable is to make part of the widget your company produces or provide an element of its service.
• Your responsibility is to make certain your organization succeeds.

When team members of a winning team and a losing team are interviewed, they both say the same thing: I’m just doing my job. How they define “my job” is what makes the difference.

What’s your job?