How to Empower Your Team

Micromanaging is a deceptive business technique that might seem productive at first but eventually leads to a toxic work environment.

It leads to frustrated employees and decreased business revenue.

However, properly empowering your team leads to having a team that no longer sees tasks as “their job”, “their work”, or “their project” but rather, as “our job”, “our project”, and “our goals”.

Empowering your team means giving them the power to do their job unencumbered.

It means that even though there are boundaries and restrictions, it should be applied conservatively to keep tasks on track without stifling creativity.

Here are ways you can build trust and empower your team:

1. Be open to new ideas:

A manager can empower their team by being open to new ideas presented by team members.

This encourages confidence among the team members and significantly empowers them.

Often, when employees present new ideas to their managers they are met with “yes, I would take that into consideration” but then it isn’t considered further, the manager merely pretends to listen.