Empowerment and engagement within organizations are more than just leadership buzzwords. The strategies to involve employees in both goals and objectives increase the opportunity for everyone’s success.
Recent studies suggest that the majority of U.S. employees are disengaged in their work and uncommitted to their respective employers. This research also supports the fact that many organizations have cultures that exclude rather than include the collective talent the business employs.
The growth and opportunities in today’s fast paced environments are fostered by a team focus and effort. There truly is power in empowerment.
Strong organizational engagement offers an opportunity to:
- Share opinions
- Communicate across departments and responsibilities
- Allow learning through risk and error
- Empower every employee to be independent thinkers
- Encourage contributions both large and small
Giving employees control over process and assignments can increase performance, productivity, and personal satisfaction. By seeking ways to strengthen and improve projects and tasks through contribution and ideas, the work setting becomes a thriving and purposeful environment for success.
Front-line employees in particular can be given the autonomy to make decisions and solve problems without highly structured management oversight. Leadership-driven initiatives often do not work without the buy-in of employees. Giving people choices on how to improve products and services goes a long way in improving both loyalty and commitment.
Leaders need to trust employees who must in turn trust leadership. This reciprocal trust ingredient strengthens and improves process. When employees are allowed a true sense of job responsibility, ideas are generated and problems are solved. Of course, there are exceptions and there are no absolutes in business as we all know. Giving employees choices to manage their work environments lessens apathy and increases the satisfaction of autonomy.
The leadership strategies that give people power and choice keep them competitive regardless of the economy and bring out the key aspects of a thriving work environment. In today’s organizations, effectiveness needs to be a team effort.
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