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Do Not Bring Me Problems Bring Me Solutions
"Do not bring me problems bring me solutions!" That's a phrase I have used several times with just about everyone in my life at one time or another. I never really thought about what it meant. It took me awhile to realize that the one common factor in all of the issues that I have come across in my business and my life had one common denominator: me. That's right; I had to take stock in how I was operating and what I could do to take the burden of running every little thing off my shoulders. What I discovered was a slow process, but the end result shocked me.
10 Steps To Empowered Employees
Getting much more from your people by using empowerment as a tactic, can make a big difference to your business. So often, your people want more and with this, they are able to give more - and this is a great asset...
Employee Freedom, A New "Old" Paradigm
In 1994 Jim Belasco and Ralph Stayer wrote Flight of the buffalo which focuses on learning to let employees lead. In 2009 Brian Carney and Isaac Getz wrote Freedom, Inc. which focuses on how to free your employees and let them lead your business to higher productivity, profits and growth. These are two examples of books that explain why a "flat organization" is better and how to build or transform an organization with it. As Gen-Y begins to take over leadership in the majority of American business, these concepts of employee empowerment, self-management and flat structure will be their demand. They care more about work-life balance than money, and they just might be able to salvage the mess we boomers have made of things. Success in the 21st century demands employers embrace this new "old" paradigm.
Empowerment - The Key To Developing Your Management Skills
It's amazing how many managers feel that they just cannot be absent from their workplace because they are 'irreplaceable'. By empowering their employees, much more is possible...
Empowerment, Autonomy & Discretion – Oh My!
Granting autonomy and loosening the apron strings can be scary. After all, this is your company we’re talking about. However, a company where employees have a reason to feel that what they are doing is important is a company on its way to greatness.

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Employer successfully questions an employee’s medical certificate
In a recent case before the Federal Magistrates Court it was determined that the sacking of an employee for not attending work was lawful, despite the fact that the employee had a medical certificate which permitted the employee to not attend work.

Five Questions to Evaluate Employee Engagement
When I think of employee engagement, I think about organizational commitment, empowerment, communication, and results! I think about employees who strive to "be the brand!" The following is a list of five questions to evaluate employee engagement.
Five Secrets to Becoming the Perfect Employee That Everyone Wants – Part One
With ever increasing deadlines, decreasing resources, and changing workplaces, sometimes it can be challenging to be a good employee, much less a perfect employee. The employee who can rise above the everyday problems and embrace challenges will be the person that every employer wants. The following are five secrets to being the perfect employee everyone wants.
Changing the Way You Think Can Empower You
What is the real meaning and purpose of self empowerment and why do you need to have it?
A Life of Choice
The empowerment of a life with choice
Empowerment - Ten Tips to Avoid Micro Management
I deal with a lot of leaders that confuse delegation with empowerment. I am often told, "I don't micro manage, I empower my employees." However, when we start digging into specific situations, we often uncover the difference between delegation and empowerment. It is really not that difficult to ascertain the difference. Delegation is simply getting someone else to perform a specific task for you. "Tom, can you move these for pallets for me to make some room for a new shipment coming in tomorrow?" Empowerment sets a little higher expectation that encourages the employee to use their own creativity and innovation.

Creating Intelligent Action Takers
You need "Risk Takers." You need "Mavericks." Identify every employee in that category and empower him or her to go out and get the job done. So what if they bend the rules sometimes. As long as they don't break the law, violate corporate core values or embarrass the company, "Turn Them Loose." You have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The employees will see this as a demonstration of trust and empowerment. Word will travel fast. Promote that concept. Send a monthly memo to everyone praising individuality that result in improvements. Title your memo, "OFF the CUFF" for it's informal straight talking honest feedback from the top. Reward and recognize the risk takers. Commend the change agents. Then align both management and the employees behind the new vision.
Measurement Traps
Measuring employee or organizational performance can cut both ways. It can play a valuable role in improving organizations - or it can stand in the way of necessary change. Used effectively, measurement can provide vital feedback that shows whether approaches being used are moving the organization toward its goals. It can assess whether staff training, teamwork, empowerment, process improvement, re-engineering or other trendy ideas are producing real results.

Employee Empowerment
Empowerment has nothing to do with fatuous statements like “Our people are our greatest asset”. Almost all companies who say such things treat their employees badly, keeping them constrained and confined in rigid roles, supported by limiting job descriptions and masses of bureaucracy. Yet, empowerment is a relatively simple process (in theory, if not in practice). here is a simple 6 step guide.
Leadership empowerment: what is it and how do you do it?
There is a significant amount of talk about the need to empower staff, but what do people mean by 'empowerment?' This article defines two different types of empowerment, and revealing the benefits. It also gives a quick snapshot of one way to implement it in the workplace.

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