8 Benefits of an Empowered Team

An empowered team performs in a completely different way to how a traditional team operates. Empowering your team is replacing traditional forms of corporate hierarchy, where team members report back to whoever is boss.

An empowered team has increased levels of responsibility and authority over their workload with self-motivated individuals independently planning and managing work, taking full ownership of their actions and decisions.

Some major benefits from this team framework are increased commitment from employees as they can make the work their ‘own’, and therefore results in increased productivity, motivation, effective decision making, constant improvement and personal development and cost savings.

The role of leadership is evolving into a broad and more open approach in the workplace. However, empowerment doesn’t take complete control from the leader as guidelines, objectives, tasks and expectations are still set from the top. Additionally, employees will correspondingly look for encouragement, praise, support and guidance from you as their support mechanism and supervisor.

A team, of course, is made up of individuals. So, the main aim of empowering your team is for team members to then empower themselves independently.

Delegating power isn’t so straightforward. Teams won’t be 100% efficient unless they understand the bigger picture and know exactly what they are working towards and why:

It is your role as a supervisor to help team members reach an empowered state, so frequently support your team and provide regular feedback. Approach team members with a positive mind-set and take this as an opportunity to effectively coach and train them. Actively exercise your leadership and coaching skills.

Empowerment is extremely powerful when it’s done right. Empowering your team involves promoting innovation, collaboration and treating mistakes as learning opportunities. Create a working environment for flexible dialogue within your team where individuals accept challenges in the spirit of continual wisdom. Praise and encouragement from you as a leader is extremely important, especially if team members have recently taken on new responsibilities. This boosts their confidence as you are essentially acknowledging their good work and trust them to be working on team tasks.

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