Leading an organization requires utmost ability in empowering people. People tend to adhere to ideals, support worthy causes, cooperate, and collaborate when they are empowered enough.
In the context of a workplace, even long-tenured and well-remunerated employees veer away from their head’s directives, become lax in the conduct of their designated tasks, and focus more on things unrelated to work even during office time when they are not empowered enough. Foremost step in empowering people in an organization is to make the organization’s vision, mission and goals clear to every member of the organization. As head of the workforce, you have to give your subordinates the opportunity to appreciate the fundamentals by which your company was founded and continues to exist. Regardless of their position, designation or specific task assignment, they have to understand the reasons for which your company is pursuing its goals and its future direction. This can be done by allowing them to undergo a process like where they are given the orientation they deserve and the opportunity to draw their own objectives towards realizing your company’s goals. Empowering people in an organization entails making clear the role of each one as part of the organization. Critical to their delivery of the output you expected of them is your subordinates’ understanding of your specific objectives and targets as head of the workforce and their roles in achieving them. Their position, designation, and specific task assignment must be thoroughly discussed to them. Making clear the roles, ways, and lee ways is a way of empowering people towards self-direction, self-regulation, creativity and collaboration. The parameters of your subordinates’ specific tasks like time-frame and quality, as well as the boundaries by which they are allowed to make certain decisions, execute their own workstyles, or exercise their creativeness must be made clear as well. Awareness of each other’s roles and of how they can possibly help or support each other pave way for team work. Giving some extent of autonomy in carrying their roles is a way of empowering people. Rather than giving extensive ‘to-do’ lists that may curtail your subordinates’ initiative and creativity, you must calibrate giving instructions and directions. Give proactive guidance, reminders, and encouragement but let them manage on their own within the designation, direction, parameters, and boundaries already given to them. Allow some extent of autonomy for them to discuss among themselves ways on how to carry-out their roles and how they can collaborate with each other. Giving acknowledgement and recognition is a way of empowering people. Whether or not the hard work of your subordinates resulted in the achievement of goals, it is still important to acknowledge their hard work and recognize their contribution. Giving due compensation has been proven an effective way of empowering people. While a self-empowered leader can draw support from his subordinates, recompensing good intentions and efforts sustains their support even more. Especially in the workplace, due compensation and incentives drives your subordinates to further their hard work and dedication to the company.
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