Developing the Team

Employee empowerment is one way of distributing the leadership in a team. Critical with employee empowerment is to give clear guiding principles on the boundaries of the empowerment.

It can be the case that when a manager wants to empower they give instructions. But employee empowerment can also be more about the team wanting and taking the initiative. So we may have to give less and allow more. Inspire the team to think of their own solutions, allow them to try and sometimes fail.

The ITD approach to employee empowerment is a thought provoking journey for managers, based on their situations and challenges. It can be useful to have a blended solution of training and coaching follow up to ensure new behaviours are implemented.