Share Information with Your Team
Willingness to share information is the most critical and the very first step in the Journey to employee empowerment and team development. People cannot make good technology or business decisions without information. They need to understand the purpose behind what they are doing and connect with the big picture. People with information feel the need to take the risk of making decisions that enable business growth.
Share the Vision & Mission of the Organization
As a leader, it is advisable to make sure that people know and have access to the organization's overall mission, vision, and strategic plans. Sharing this information helps them to feel that they are part of, and contributing to, something bigger than themselves and their individual job. Create a vision for your team that aligns with the overall vision of the organization. Share the most important goals and direction for your team and in the process; ensure that everyone has a clear picture of what success will look like. People who understands where they need to go are much more likely to get there - “start with the end in mind”.
Demonstrate a clear vision to your team. Let your team know what you are planning, strategically, to accomplish over the long run. Empower your team to innovate and think out of box to support the big vision.
Help them understand the Strategy & Business Drivers
Once empowered, to take the right decisions, people must understand how the company generates money, what the expenses are, and how it makes a profit. To achieve this, share the key financial data and provide meaningful explanations of these figures. Show people how their jobs are tied to these results and how empowered performance can have a positive impact on the numbers. They need to understand the business drivers and how they can relate the same with their respective process areas. How their individual goals are helping the organization to solve the bigger business problems.
Link Strategy & Operational Plans to Employee Performance
The successful deployment of your strategy is dependent upon managers' and employees’ discussions of that strategy and the sooner teams adjust their spending to the priorities best aligned with business strategy, the higher the return on those investments. Managers should aim to link the strategic and operational plans to individual performance. This would result in a heightened level of project ownership and increased teamwork as they will be able to relate to the business value that they are working upon. If employees don’t know the details of your strategy, how can they make adjustments to the thousands of decisions and actions that they make on a daily basis? They can’t. By having a first-hand understanding of your company’s business strategy, your workforce will have the shared strategy context needed to quickly implement operational change to meet new customer demands and fend off competitors’ emerging efforts.
Enable them to Focus on Big Picture
Team leaders should help their direct reports connect their learning goals to wider company objectives and ensure that team members have the time and resources they need to reach their goals. Start building your team’s business process understanding by leveraging technofunc’s functional training. Whether the learner is a team leader or team member, or both, they will learn how to be effective team players and team leaders, solve problems, and work towards common goals via highly interactive case studies, exercises, and use of TechnoFunc resources.
Information Drives Productivity
Sharing information helps people understand why change and improvement are necessary to resolve business challenges and stay competitive. The importance of change in business environments allows employees to learn new skills, explore new opportunities, and exercise their creativity in ways that ultimately benefit the organization through new ideas and increased commitment. Understanding of the real business issues motivates people to use their knowledge and experience, to improve the business processes and drive productivity.
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