When done properly, empowering your employees will see:
● Increased motivation – when employees feel that they have greater autonomy over their
outputs and outcomes, from where they work to when, how, and who with, they are more
likely to pick a style of work that suits them, leading to greater motivation and more
impactful work.
● Greater trust in line management and the broader leadership team, all the way to exec level,
is a natural side effect of a well-managed employee empowerment model, as talent at all
levels of the ladder display mutual respect and work to earn each others’ trust and respect.
Mentoring and coaching play an important role in the empowerment model and as
managers guide their team members to make good decisions, trust and respect will continue
to grow.
● As highlighted by Harvard Business Review, higher levels of creativity – space to be
autonomous means space to be creative, encouraging an environment of innovation and
experimentation, within predetermined boundaries. The analysis attributed this boost in
creativity to two separate psychological events: employees with empowering leaders see
more meaning in their work and greater correlation with their own values, and they develop
greater levels of trust in their leaders which in turn means that they are likely to be more
willing to go to higher levels of effort without feeling disgruntled or exploited.
● Ultimately, well executed empowerment can lead to greater profitability.