The concept of employee empowerment has many facets. Search for any term or phrase surrounding “how to empower your employees” and you’ll receive millions of online results. None of those approaches is necessarily wrong. Yet, traditional tactics that are typically used to “empower” employees leave room for so much more.
Using a strategy called open-book management, business leaders have an opportunity to empower employees in a unique-yet-proven way.
As a business leader, you are tasked with professional development for and with your team members. This process can take different forms, such as coaching, consulting, training, and mentoring.
All of these modes of learning are about the development of individuals. You deploy one or the other because you want to give your team members, or your team overall, better skills or knowledge, or help them develop behaviors that will benefit them in the workplace.
While these terms are often used interchangeably, there are distinct differences. Each serves a specific purpose, even if the ultimate goal is the same—or at least appears to be the same. And when you break down each mode, you can see how they uniquely apply to the workplace environment. So let’s dig a little deeper into each.
A fearless reinventor, Sally-Jo’s careers have been fulfilling and dynamic, from her start in Big Pharma and medical device sales to her first exciting pivot into the food industry. During this time she earned a Culinary Arts degree and started a culinary production company. It was there that she grew her love of collaborative teamwork and became a trusted creative partner to Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies, news organizations, and celebrity chefs.
After becoming widowed with a young daughter, Sally-Jo pivoted again, leveraging her lifelong interest in human development with extensive coach & leadership training, launching Mercury Coaching & Consulting, LLC in 2011. She now partners with leaders at all levels to provide customized executive coaching, leadership development, and mental fitness training as well as specialized grief leadership coaching.
Sally-Jo focuses on growing our capacity to lead courageous conversations that pave the way for successful business outcomes. She is an advocate for co-creating positive workplaces where truth, curiosity, resilience, and humor are valued, and rewarded.
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