3 Ways to Empower Your Employees – And Produce Results

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What business wouldn’t want employees who are engaged, invested and enthusiastic about their work? Employees who generate results without constant supervision or micro-managing. It’s not such a far-fetched idea.
Empowering Your Employees Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult.

By following some simple steps, you can empower your employees, and encourage them to take ownership of their positions and results.

Step 1. Encourage Curiosity
Technical skills and experience are an important part of any position, but in some companies, they can pigeonhole employees and narrow their focus. Often times, employees have ideas that fall outside their areas of “specialty,” but don’t raise the thought because of fear. Foster a culture where asking questions and making suggestions are encouraged. You have the power to create an environment where employees feel comfortable, even excited, to learn more and offer ideas.

Step 2. Accept Mistakes
No one enjoys making mistakes. As a society, we’re conditioned at a young age to believe that mistakes are bad, and failure is unacceptable. In business, nothing could be further from the truth! As Benjamin Franklin once said, “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Accept mistakes as a learning opportunity.  Encourage your employees to try new things and, yes, make mistakes – so that they can learn from them. When employees aren’t afraid of being scolded by the boss for making a mistake, they’re more likely to embrace the mistake and truly learn.

Step 3. Challenge Processes
Can you identify the major processes in your organization? Okay, now identify how they were developed. How many origins have you identified?  It’s funny how many processes in organizations are done a certain way because, “That’s always how we’ve done it.”  Innovation never sprang from doing things the way they’ve always been done. By sticking to old policies and procedures out of pure habit, you’re setting your company up for major issues down the road. Encourage your employees to refine and offer suggestions for improving processes and policies in your organization. You could end up with better service and products, more profit and happier employees.

Take your organization to the next level.
At Pinnacle, we offer staffing and workforce solutions to help improve your productivity and empower your employees.

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