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Set clear goals and objectives:                      Create an environment that celebrates

                                                             both successes and failures:
        Be clear about your vision, goals/objectives,
        and roles.  This will help create the                Don’t just celebrate the successes, celebrate

        framework necessary to guide employees               the employees who took a risk but maybe
        to make empowered  decisions to keep                 didn’t obtain the results intended but learned
        customers happy. By setting clear objectives,        valuable lessons themselves and for the
        every employee will know their role and              company.
        responsibilities of the organization.
                                                             Let teams become the hierarchy:

        Support a learning environment:
                                                             This occurs by slowly and carefully transferring
        This is an ongoing process whereby teams             responsibilities from managers to teams.  This

        look at various situations and discuss them          can be a very scary and difficult process that
        together to determine how they might handle          takes time, training and a lot of persistence.
        things differently in the future to achieve a        This requires a lot of support time to the teams
        different result.  This is really what our lives     as they move from depending on a manager
        are all about; learning new things as we grow,       to make decisions to being autonomous.

        by analyzing the things we’ve done in the
        past.


        Effective communication:



        Sharing information with employees is
        important because it not only helps to build
        trust; In a culture obsessed with measuring
        talent build trust; it gives employees important

        information that will allow them to make the
        best possible decisions in critical situations
        and be well connected with the organization.



        Empower employees:
                                                             Working to create an environment that
        If you empower employees to make decisions           empowers employees has been shown to not
        that will help keep customers happy, then            only increase customer satisfaction levels
        you have to be willing to allow them to make         but also improve employee morale.  It takes

        mistakes and learn from those mistakes.              training, practice, and the ability to accept
        Berating an employee who tried something             mistakes as  a part  of  the learning  process  –
        new will only serve to keep others from trying       but it is well worth the effort in the long run!
        new things.


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