Top 4 ways to empower workforce in 2020 and beyond | HR
For the HR industry, 21st century has brought new challenges like remote workforce management, talent acquisition and retention (to name a few).
This blog, today, will be sharing some best tips for the right HR management. Before we start, let us ask, employees and staff being one of the most valuable assets for organisation and business, what have you done so far to keep them motivated and engaged?
Do you have the right HR management solution? Or do you practice Hr activities and employee management the right way? Are you familiar about employee empowerment?
What is employee empowerment?
Empowering your employees is a practice to make your workforce feel motivated and build their morale through intuitive HR activities.
It can be anything but opposite to micro-managing them.
Yes! Micro management is just opposite of employee empowering strategy. To understand more, employee empowerment includes activities of making them feel important, providing responsibilities, self-service, etc.
Today, we are going to learn some tips to keep the staff motivated (and empowered) for better performance and productivity round the hours.
Below are 4 popular ways to empower your employees easily:• Make people a part of planning
• Don’t judge. Listen
• Self-service portal
• Transparent performance appraisal
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Make people a part of planning
Involving your people into making plans for next week or month could help them feel important. Taking them to the monthly strategic meeting could also help. Let them share their ideas and listen to them.
Leadership quality is important. But knowing what leadership is, is more important for a manager or team lead. Segregating work based on team members is not enough. You need to communicate the plan and requirements and let brainstorm together.
Make it more than just a 9 to 6 job. The salary and canteen perk effects does not last longer. You need to engage your employees with responsibilities into their hand. Empower them with strategic planning for further business.
Self-service portal
HR technology like employee self-service portal is one of the best ways of empowering employees and keeping them connected.
The self-service app allows employees to request leaves and track approvals by themselves. Empowering employees with such self-service portal help create the required culture at work.
Employees now need not reach HR for simple tasks like payslips or any employee document. The self-service portal itself brings all required data on fingertips.
ListenThis could be best strategy to engage employees - Listen to them! One on one conversations and helping them out would work. Speak up the requirements mentioned earlier and mind their words. Respect their opinions.
This is the best way to build trust amount team members. By allowing them to contribute to work and planning, you can create a good culture and therefore build a motivated workforce.
Make sure they feel contributing to the goals of company. Ensure they are heard.
Transparent performance appraisal
Modern appraisal methods include degree feedbacks for precise reviews and true appraisal. Making your employees feel motivated could be tricky at times. But right tools kike appraisal management software could help you lower the pain.
The system allows each selected group of people provides reviews based on set parameters and provides a degree score based on people reviews. It, therefore, makes the appraisal process easier and precise.
Rewarding an employee based on their work can be your best tool in making a motivated team.
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Hope it helps. Thanks for reading!
Author bio-
Ritik Singh writes about HR (Human Resource) software, cloud, and enterprise technology. A dynamic content writer who writes for
Pocket HRMS, a leading provider of cloud-based HR software with inbuilt AI-powered HR Chatbot (smHRty) to small and mid-sized businesses across India.
