What a difference a day makes! Recently, news channels and social media sites have been overwhelmed with coverage of the US Election – and, of course, its truly unexpected outcome.
What’s been evident throughout, whatever our political persuasion, is the existence of a need for leaders who truly empower people.
This is just as true in business, where the number one priority for any Chief Executive is to ensure everyone from the Financial Director to the HR Assistant is given the training, motivation and rewards to make a better life for themselves.
Of course, empowered employees also means a supercharged work environment where business strategies achieve long-term goals and protect profits.
But don’t take our word for it. Here are our top ten inspirational leaders who knew the value of giving more power to the people.
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”
Henry Ford
“Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.”
Timothy R. Clark
“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.”
Anne M. Mulcahy
“No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”
Jack Welch
“I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.”
Richard Branson
“The inventory, the value of your company, walks out the door every evening.”
Bill Gates
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first — everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.”
Buck Rodgers
“An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.”
Stephen Covey
“The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers.”
Sybil F. Stershic
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