Are You Empowering Your Employees?

Posted by tiffanycwright under Human Resources
From http://theresourcefulceo.com 3861 days ago
Made Hot by: robinandy58 on May 2, 2014 11:12 am

If you're a CEO or owner, it's likely one of your desires is to have enthusiastic, committed, empowered employees who take initiative with little direction from you. Unfortunately, as an employer, it can be easy to confuse delegation with empowerment. It may not dawn on you until it's too late that delegation alone does not provide employees with the freedom they need to take independent action.

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Written by cecilwampler
3851 days ago

I just had this conversation with a business leader and the response was quite disappointing. Sometimes leaders grab a philosophy out of thin air and believe it is right because they say it. Supervisors delegate tasks, not responsibility. Delegation is definitely not empowerment, and is usually misused and abused to become a form of laziness and way of dumping unwanted work off onto others. I really agree with the importance of empowerment discussed in the article and appreciate you making the distinction for the community.

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Written by tiffanycwright
3762 days ago

Cecil, I read your response via email on the go and really liked and appreciated what you had to say. Thank you very much for your insights. I've read (and shared) some of your blog posts, therefore, your comments carry additional weight with me!

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