How Leaders energize and empower people?

As a leader to accomplish success, we need to ensure energize and empower our team members. It is the desire of the moment. 

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. - Zig Ziglar

Great leaders inspire action with their words.

“When people know why you do what you do, they are willing to give you credit for everything that could serve as proof of why.” – Simon Sinek

Leaders have to know further about their team members. They inquire what inspires their team. Is it the mission? The intimacy and teamwork? Personal ambition? Leaders discover and jointly with the team members create a common shared goal.

Great leaders are continually find approaches to honor their team members and celebrate their individual and shared successes.

Leaders know how to acknowledge people’s contributions. They reward their team members as an when they encounter small opportunities.

Leaders are curious about their people, their intention is to help the team members. To energize their people, listen with curiosity, speak with honesty and act with integrity.

Leaders understand the people’s value, they respect each individual. They understand the strength and weaknesses of their team members. They work by aligning with their team members and organization big picture.

Leaders are always grateful for their team member’s contributions. They thank frequently about team member’s commitment and acknowledge the challenges team members are facing and support to overcome those.

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” - Stephen R. Covey

Leaders who are high in emotional intelligence are in a good position to energizer the team members, They understand the people’s mindset better and influence people attitude positively.

Leaders who can easily energize employee look at the positive side of employees activities

Leaders support team members and mentor team all the time. Leaders ensure they guide team members to strengthen their skills and competency. Leaders create more leaders.

They inspire the team member’s positively to obtain a bigger vision. 

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. - Sir Richard Branson

Leaders ensuring their team member’s skills and competency are strengthened and regularly leaders assess their growth progress. They send team members on various training and skill development programs. They ensure on the job team members exercise those skills and multiply.

Leaders give feedback to all the employees about their performance. Leaders ensure that that feedback is taken positively and employees prepared to perform on those feedback for advancement.

Leaders ensure team members exercise their creative skill and there is a culture of experimenting and gain from failure.

"There is little success where there is little laughter." - Andrew Carnegie

Leaders do not treat the employee as a child but as a partner. Leaders work with the team members for a shared goal and common purpose.

Positivity at the workplace: Leaders eliminate toxic environment from the office. They ensure positivity is available at office culture. Decisions taken are transparent and there is trust among team members.

Accessible: Leaders ensure that they are accessible to the team members as an when required, that is the best support leaders can produce. Whenever there is a conflict or any crisis situation if employees are able to obtain support from the leaders, it establishes a constructive impact on their attitude.

The leader asks powerful questions to identify expectations from the team members. Leaders connect with the team members to figure out what are the strength and weaknesses of their team members, what they choose to accomplish, what are their vision, based on the input leader chalk out the career advancement plan.

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” – Tom Peters

Leaders Provide autonomy to their team members. Once team members have the freedom, they will be more empowered to make their own decision and ownership level intensified.

Leaders communicate precisely and clarify what they expect out from the employee. Leaders set distinct expectations and track through and support wherever requested.

Leaders constantly give feedback for advancement, appreciate whenever the task has been accomplished successfully. 

Trust your employee, once you as leaders trust employees, they trust culture will establish. Leaders have to walk the talk and these will spread. 

By letting your employees grow, your company will also grow exponentially. - Mark Samraj

Empathize with team members, it goes a long way when we understand the challenge each team members are experiencing. Empathy leads to empowerment. So leaders exercise empathy to realize their team member's challenges.

Let employees take a vacation and ensure work-life balance is maintained. That is what great leaders expect. Once as a leader you encouraging these team members to revitalize themselves, they will come with sufficient energy and they will be prepared to contribute better. 

“Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.” - Lee Lacocca

As a leader try these steps and see the result you gain. It needs a lot of preparation and practice.