Recognize efforts and reward successes

The key to making employees feel confident enough to take initiative and make decisions is to simply reward those that do

Recognizing these efforts is the ultimate employee motivator, as it encourages the employee to continue doing what they’re doing, as well as inspire their team members to follow suit This lets employees know their thoughts and opinions are valued and appreciated, making them all the more likely to speak up (Zhang, and Bartol, 2010). Remove

Eliminate any hurdles like organizational policies, practices or habits that may keep employees from feeling or acting empowered

Instead of relying on the traditional top-down communication from management, invite and welcome employee feedback by creating plenty of opportunities for employees to give their 2 cents (Zhang, and Bartol, 2010).

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• Most important,empower employees by giving themthe tools they needto succeedand lead.

• Providethenecessarytraining, a mentor,quality feedback -- anything and everything that will help themontheir way to becoming more empowered(Zhang, and Bartol, 2010).

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• Totruly enable employees, employers need to be willing to take a step back.

• Some employees may find it easier to step upif theydon’tfeel like their every moveis being monitored, not to mentionevaluated.

• Monitoringanemployee’s every movecan have the opposite of the intended effect by impedingtheir ability togrowasprofessionals(Gill et al., 2010).