The Challenge of Delegating and Empowering

When we talk about work teams, achieving empowerment, delegating and letting go of control, it becomes an important challenge mainly for those who are in charge and seek to ensure that things happen to achieve results.

¿Para qué empoderar?

Empowerment, power and government mean both the power that someone gives to another so that they can do something in their place, as well as the ability to achieve it.

It focuses on enhancing the capabilities of team members so that they have the power to do other activities that add more value.

• Empower = Distributed control.
• Empowering teams is having people who will improve results.
• Empowered organizations are more flexible and agile.
• Improve the working system.
• Focus on more powerful system, not better controlled people.

How to give and take control?

• Decrease control and increase trust.
• Delegate with clear boundaries.
• Clarity in the information about expected results (what, how, when)
• Define the level of control of the person or team.
• Making the delegation public helps keep commitments.

Delegation Levels

According to the problem to be solved and the decisions to be made, there are different levels of delegation within the teams that are key to identify to promote results in each organization.

Delegation Poker is a Management 3.0 practice that helps teams define how decisions will be made, as well as the level of delegation so that team results are visible and the commitment is made public. This practice breaks with the traditional scheme where only the “boss” does control and follow-up, now, it is the whole team that guarantees that “things happen”.