• Empowerment must be balanced with accountability; as employees are given more power to control how they work, they need to be given more responsibility for the output.
• When goals are clearly articulated and feedback regularly provided, it’s easier to gauge if employees have the understanding and resources that they need to hit their goals.
• It’s not wise to simply ignore a problem, certainly, but if you are committed to building a culture of empowerment, you can’t solve every issue.

At its core, empowerment is about giving employees control over how they carry out their roles.

• It's not uncommon for businesses to require employees to complete processes that have been developed exclusively by their managers. When that’s the culture, that is