Empower Your People

Empower your people.

                Instead of holding Senior Leadership Meetings to establish new policies or procedures, or for re-organization and such, all things resulting in change that is better for the company both now and into the future, allow your people to come up with the plan.  Have the mid-level managers of your organization establish a ‘steering’ committee with the charter to create a plan of what needs to be done to affect the change and how to do it.  Provide clear communications of the desire of the company and include all constraints such as schedule, budget, safety, etc. Then, as discussed before in this blog, use your 3 D’s and disappear to let them come up with the plan.  See what they come up with.  Because they are directly involved with the day to day operations of the company, it is they who will know best of what changes need to occur.  Give them a specific timeline to be done, no more than one month.  Then, their plan can be presented to the Senior Leadership to have final say and decide on how to implement.

                This plan creates two important positive results:

1)  It leads to transparency as to the direction the company is moving.  By providing transparency it will harbor less cynicism towards your overall goal of creating a more efficient company.

2)  It empowers your people to be a part of the decision of their overall fate.  Empowerment leads to ownership.  Ownership is the one thing that makes companies GREAT!  Great Companies have fewer turnovers of its employees, and by large are more efficient.

                I have seen this work.  It is written in all of the leadership books.  Give it a chance.