EMPOWERING YOUR ORGANISATION

EMPOWERING YOUR ORGANISATION.

By Ayo Emakhiomhe.

Only empowered organisations succeed.

If you have a success mantra and cannot structure this into your organisation to empower it to succeed then you are not there yet.

For most small businesses, this is the point where they miss it. They both stop growing and start dying, or you spend all your time and energy doing all the work and you start dying.

A simple basic step in setting up defined structures even if the personnel does not exist yet.

The following steps will guide you in achieving this

1.     Name the office/position. It is usually better to use functionality here like the office of the secretary to the federal government or the Zonal Head Marketing.

2.     Define the roles. State the specific, primary or core responsibilities expected of this office/position. Once you state the expectations, the person for that post is easily definable in terms of qualifications, character and experience.

3.     State the expectations or results that such a person is expected to produce. These can be said to be the key performance indicators (KPI’s). These results should be in line with the overall mission/vision of the organisation.

4.     Prepare/define the necessary training and job experiences that would qualify a person for the position.

5.     Set penalties for not meeting defined goals of such an office. Consider also the overall effect on the organisation and what minimum timelines will be acceptable, realistic and optimal at achieving the defined results.

6.     Define the number of people, tools, possible risks, etc that such a position/department will require.

7.     Reaffirm the importance of that position in the overall medium to long term goals of the organisation.

8.     Note and celebrate milestones, objectives and achievements. Make it an organizational culture.

9.     Monitor, appraise and set standards.

10.                        Mentor, mentor, mentor. Mentor your leaders, yourself and your organisation. A master mentor will always encourage action; evaluate the action and results with the mentee. Bring out the key learning objectives and match results with key expected/defined outputs.

11.                        Pray. Always pray for yourself, your organisation, your leaders, your subordinates, your supervisors, and your economy and also pray about your mission/vision.

A leader’s job is always teaching his/her people to prioritize; setting out what is most important now and working on it.

Be empowered today.