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5 Employee Empowerment Tools You Can Use

Oct 7, 2020 by Rich Armstrong 0 Comments

Employee Empowerment Tools

Surveys show that employees don’t usually participate in The Great Game of Business® until they feel comfortable with the numbers and with the whole idea of the GGOB.

Fortunately, there are plenty of other ways to quickly build a sense of excitement and a feeling of empowerment within your organization. 

What is Employee Empowerment?

It relies on a single core principle: giving employees the right resources, whether it's financial literacy education, hands-on training, or new tools, to make accurate decisions on behalf of the company. 

Benefits of Employee Empowerment 

  • Improved workplace culture.
  • Heightened productivity. 
  • Better quality work.
  • Organization-wide engagement.

Here are 5 tips that will get your employees engaged and empowered:

How to build employee empowerment

Interested in Learning More?

Learn the best techniques for employee empowerment, from giving them inspiring challenges to new training opportunities, and more. 

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Rich Armstrong
Written by Rich Armstrong

Rich Armstrong has nearly thirty years of experience in improving business performance and employee engagement through open-book management and employee ownership, with service as a business coach and as a current executive at SRC Holdings Corporation, a thirty-five-year old employee-owned company and one of the United States’ top one hundred largest majority employee-owned companies. Rich has been instrumental in the ongoing development of SRC Holdings’ open-book management and employee-ownership practices through practical, “firsthand” experience leading several of SRC’s business units. This experience has enabled him to successfully apply these practices in both small- and large-scale company implementations around the world. He coauthored "Get in the Game" as well as the update of the number one bestseller, "The Great Game of Business—20th Anniversary Edition". Rich is a graduate of Pittsburg State University and serves on the board of the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO). He cherishes his time with his wife, Alicia, and four children, Ryan, Ethan, Rylee, and Jackson. Rich’s guilty pleasure is making music in his home studio and playing in his ’90s rock tribute band.

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Our approach to running a company was developed to help close one of the biggest gaps in business: the gap between managers and employees. We call our open-book approach The Great Game of Business. What lies at the heart of The Game is a very simple proposition: The best, most efficient, most profitable way to operate a business is to give everybody in the company a voice in saying how the company is run and a stake in the outcome. Let us teach you how to develop a culture of ownership, where employees think, act and feel like owners.