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The Concept of the "Free Agent" in the Workplace
Part 2
by Susan Dunn

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MANAGING A FREE AGENT

How do you manage a "free agent?" You manage the environment, not the person. Promotions, the carrot and the stick, punishment and reward, group pressure, will not work with a free agent. Why not? Because they are always free to move on, generally anticipating it, certainly not fearing it.

One would rather leave of one's own accord, but if it happens, it's simply an unplanned event or sometimes poor timing.

Why did I stay in the places where I did? Because of the boss. They were great to be around and created the kind of atmosphere, including attracting like-minded people, where I could thrive. They didn't impede my progress. Free agents are self-motivated achievers. We work more for the pleasure of it than most folks, perhaps, and can't be motivated (we come that way) but CAN be deflated.

Free agents don't threaten easily because they know their skills and experience are welcome elsewhere. Furthermore, they don't whine or give warning before they leave. They don't think it worth their time to change the unwilling or improve the untrainable. Finding themselves in an untenable work situation with poor management, they leave the place to its idiosyncracies and go on to greener pastures.

FREE AGENT MINDSET

"Two-thirds of today's workforce have a free agent mindset;" says Ed Gubman, Ph.D., in his book, THE ENGAGING LEADER: Winning with Today's Free Agent Workforce," "that is, they are loyal to themselves but not necessarily the companies they work for. They understand that supply and demand rules--when they're not needed, they'll be gone. More than half are constantly scanning the job market, and the most highly desirable employees believe that career security rests within themselves, not with their organizations."

I haven't read the book, but this quotation caught my eye. If the majority of today's workers now have the "free agent mindset," this means if you're an employer, you'll have to clean up your act and do what you should've been doing all along. The free agent has options, and the 'feel' of their work day is what matters.

It should cause you to look to your leadership skills and emotional intelligence, as the primal leader, and the climate in your workplace and see if it's the kind of place people would like to work in.

Does the person's workday include experiencing or seeing mobbing, harassment or hostile workplace? No, these are not illegal, but remember with free agents, that's not the point. They aren't interested in suing you, or in changing your bad behavior, they move on.

If you have allowed the sort of workplace where other workers can make life hell for someone else (and studies show it's often good workers), they leave and also word gets out.

If you want to attract and keep excellent employees, look to your shop and to your own emotional intelligence.

• Are you the kind of person people like to work with? Free agents work "with," not "for."
• Do you have an EQ culture in place where people treat one another well and focus on strengths, so people can thrive?
• Do you practice learned optimism, for maximum success and profitability?
• Do you ignore harassment, hostility and mobbing, assuming that work has an element of "hell" to it and if it's not illegal, it's not your problem?
• Or do you care enough to notice?
• Do you realize you have options and that your employees do too?

Free agents are looking for the place where they can do their best. Is that your office?

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