Employee Empowerment: harvesting the creative and emotional power

Employee Empowerment

Harvest the creative, emotional, and productive power of all your people

People as your most important asset. Your technologies, products and structures can be copied by competitors. No one, however, can match your highly charged, motivated people who care. People are your firm's repository of knowledge and they are central to your company's competitive advantage.

Harness Employees for Competitive Advantage

Employee empowerment creates great benefits for your organization, its teams and employees.

Growth 10+ is People 10+

Empowerment vs. Delegation

Yin and Yang of Employee Empowerment

How To Lead Creative People

Affiliative Leadership

Empower people around you. Well educated, coached, and highly motivated people are critical to the development and execution of strategies, especially in today's faster-paced, more perplexing world, where top management alone can no longer assure your firm's competitiveness.

The Loving Creator created us in his likeness. We are all loving creators by birth. To unlock their true potential, people need get empowered − from within in life, and from outside in hierarchies.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

In today's dynamic business environment autocracy no longer works, yet the empowerment alone is not enough. Coaching aims to enhance the learning ability and performance of others.

Be an inclusive leader. In today's innovation-driven economy, independent intrapreneurship and initiative is needed throughout the ranks of your organization.

Why Employee Empowerment

Empowering Leadership

Super-Leaderships

Tao-style Leadership

The way to engender enthusiasm it to allow employees far more freedom and far more responsibility.

Jack Welch

If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Bill Gates

Microsoft

The leader is best,... When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Inspirational Leadership

10 Steps to Employee Empowerment

Creative Leadership

DOs and DON'Ts

Suggestion System

The suggestion system is an integral part of an established management system that aims at involving employees in continuous improvement practices and nourishing the Kaizen Mindset − a continuous improvement attitude... More

Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements

Empowered Employees (Metal):

People are sharply aligned with corporate vision and strategies... More

10 Rules for Building a Great Business

Create a winning organization. Cultivate leaders. Inspire, energize, and empower employees. Create hot teams and an adaptive organization. Build an inspiring culture. Search for synergies. Leverage diversity... More

Getting Employees Involved: 9 Ways

Business BLISS

Balance – Leadership – Innovation – Synergy – Speed

Leadership: Lead more, manage less, empower, inspire, and energize your people – unlock their true potential!... More

6Ws of Corporate Growth

Know WHO: develop leaders, empower employees, build teams, establish strategic alliances, partner with customers... More

10 Commandments of Innovation

Inspire Your Team: Inspire, empower and energize people... More

Building a Team Culture

10 Action Areas

Empower teams.

Transform Your Business

into an Innovative and Creative Culture

Empowerment. Ideally, empowerment of employees results in increased initiative, involvement, enthusiasm, innovation and speed, all in support of the company's mission... More

10 Steps To Empowerment

5 Strategies for Creating a Culture for Innovation

Empower: Create a culture of questioning; encourage risk taking; give your people freedom to experiment, fail, and restart... More

Main Subjects for Suggestions in Japanese Companies

Improvement in one's own work... More

The Toyota Way

14 Principles

Standardized tasks and processes are the foundation for continuous improvement and employee empowerment... More

Leadership-Management Synergy

Leaders: Provide vision. Managers: Provide resources.

► Resulting synergy: Employee empowerment..

12 Effective Leadership Roles

Empower people; delegate authority; motivate; be open to ideas; have faith in the creativity of others... More

Leading Change: The 8 Stage Change Process

By John P. Kotter

Introduce new practices:

Empower a broad base of people to take action.

Innovation Practice Tips

By: IDEO

Stay human, scale your organizational environment so that there's room for hot teams to emerge and thrive... More

Strategies for Leading Breakthroughs

A clearly defined commitment helps people understand whom they have to become to build a legacy. In essence, people become the accomplishment. When people become their accomplishment, it empowers them to take the appropriate actions.

→ Inspiring Culture: 5 Elements

18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day. The job of the leader is not to be the chief organizer, but the chief disorganizer.".... More

Quick and Easy Kaizen

Quick and Easy Kaizen empowers employees, enriches the work experience and brings out the best in every person. It Improves quality, safety, cost structures, delivery, environments, throughput and customer service... More

7 Principles of Toyota Production System (TPS)

Employee involvement and empowerment.

Case in Point Canon Production System (CPS)

The Canon Production System (CPS) includes:

Staff participation (quality circles, suggestion boxes, improvement proposals), and workshop dynamism... More

Three Stages of the Suggestion System

1. Encouragement. In the first stage, management should make every effort to help the workers provide suggestions, no matter how primitive, for the betterment of the worker's job and the workshop. This will help the workers look at the way they are doing their jobs.

Case in Point 14 TQM Slogans at Pentel

Pentel is a Japanese firm manufacturing stationary products. The following is a list of 14 Pentel's slogans for explaining Total Quality Management (TQM) and Quick and Easy Kaizen philosophy to its employees.

You are surrounded by mountains of treasures.

Keep People In The Know

"Transformational leaders empower others by keeping them "in the know," by keeping them fully informed on everything that effects their jobs," says Brian Tracy.

"People want and need to feel that they are “insiders,” that they are aware of everything that is going on. There is nothing so demoralizing to a staff member than to be kept in the dark about their work and what is going on in the company."

Empowering the People Around You

3 General Rules

The three general rules for empowering the people around you, which apply to everyone you meet, are appreciation, approval, and attention. Voice your thanks and gratitude to others on every occasion. Praise them for every accomplishment. And pay close attention to them when they talk and want to interact with you. These three behaviors alone will make you a master of human interaction and will greatly empower the people around you.

Contemporary Management Functions...

Two Common Traits of Great Leaders and Managers...

Balance between Authority and Employee Empowerment...

Developing Entrepreneurial Staff...

10 Steps to Empowerment...

Participatory Management...

Employee Ownership of Quality...

Inspiring People...

Caring Is the Key...

Getting Employees Involved...

Energizing Employees...

25 Lessons from jack Welch: Involve Everyone..