{"id":4244,"date":"2021-06-08T01:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookipistg.wpengine.com\/university\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:40:05","slug":"shackling-what-it-is-and-how-to-avoid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookipi.com\/au\/hr\/shackling-what-it-is-and-how-to-avoid-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is shackling and how to avoid it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At Bookipi, we don’t believe in shackling staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does shackling mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shackling means putting restraints on someones creative freedom, hindering their growth and not valuing their opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever had a boss who ignores your requests to work on the projects you felt passionate about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about a boss that would never listen to your suggestions or take your advice into account?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can even be something as small as not listening to what you were saying before they said no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shackling happens when a boss or workplace doesn’t care about your goals or value your input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this sounds all too familiar, you’ve worked somewhere that shackled you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Bookipi, we don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point, everyone will leave Bookipi and take up another venture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that because we’ve been that person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want the best talent on our team and we value the work of every individual that has contributed to our success so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we will always strive to keep building our already amazing team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We align work projects with professional development and areas of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that our team comes to work each day happier knowing that they are working on projects that have meaning to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our staff have individual and personal ownership of the projects that they want to be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone feels pride over their work and valued in their role, they’re only going to push themselves to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the type of environment we want to make at Bookipi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t imagine undercutting anyone to make them stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re on the Bookipi team, it’s because we want you here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want everyone to pursue their goals and sometimes that means we have to say, “we’ll see you again soon”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this time, we haven’t had any team members that we’ve hired leave the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that day will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greatest compliment is for someone about how much they grew at Bookipi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our business has been built on our users recommending Bookipi to their friends and we know the same will happen with our team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When something great happens to you, you want to tell everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s what we strive for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We empower our team, we communicate our plan, and we give them the freedom and power to get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to grow your company, give the people who make it what it is the opportunity to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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