Empowering People towards Teamwork

People empowering people plays a very important role in team-building whether in the context of family, community, or workplace. Parents raise their children in harmony and unity in the home. Neighborhood leaders endeavor to encourage community participation.

In the context of the workplace, people empowering people motivates and inspires their employees to work hard, perform well, and deliver the output expected of them. Here are 4 strategies that people empowering people employ to ensure teamwork in workplaces:

1. Clear vision and common goals. Paramount to the success of any business group or company is having clear vision and common goals. Employees regardless of their position, work status, or task assignment must understand the company’s vision and goals and uphold it as their own. They must all undergo a process like orientation or workshop where they can appreciate the fundamentals by which the company was created and form their specific objectives towards realizing the company’s vision and goals. Such process empowers them feel a part of the company.

2. Clear designation, direction, parameters, and boundaries. Employees must be oriented well as to their designations. The specifics of the tasks assigned to them must be made clear including its relevance to the overall direction of the company’s operations. The parameters of their tasks like time-frame and quality must be very clear as well as the boundaries by which they are allowed to make certain decisions, execute their own workstyles, or exercise their creativeness. Awareness of each other’s roles and by which they can help or support each other is very important in team building. Having a clear understanding of roles, ways, and lee ways empowers employees towards self-direction, self-regulation, creativity and collaboration.

3. Delegate the entire project to everyone. To make every employee a stakeholder of every project, delegate the whole project to everyone as a team. Each employee must own the project and be responsible for its full completion. In knowing that each one’s task is critical to the over-all accomplishment of the project, employees are empowered to seriously take their respective tasks and work hard to deliver what is expected of them. They must be allowed some extent of autonomy to make their own plan of action and devise strategies as a team. For successful completion of the project, employees must be acknowledged and congratulated as a team thereby empowering each team member to own the accomplishment and feel recognized regardless of the extent of his contribution.

4. Calibrated management and supervision. Rather than giving extensive ‘to-do’ lists that may curtail employees’ initiative and creativity, people empowering people must calibrate giving instructions and directions. Give proactive guidance and reminders but let employees manage on their own within the designation, direction, parameters, and boundaries already given to them. When things go wrong, allow them to rectify or do remediation. People empowering people engage their employees in monitoring performance and output thereby empowering them to self-regulate. They make their presence felt as well as their readiness to give whatever help or support needed by their employees.

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