Employment Enablement

Employment Enablement

When you think about ways to better transform your workforce, you tend to think about improving employee engagement. After all, employees can contribute more to a business than just what their job duties entail. The employees can be actual brand advocates for your organization, boost productivity and retention while helping your organization produce better results. While employee engagement and engaging employees tend to be the common topics, you may be overlooking the process of employee enablement. Once you engaged your employees who are vested in your organization, how do you keep your team focused and committed to ensuring they stay engaged? This is why employee enablement is important to understand.

What is Employee Enablement?

Before we can really dive into the process and importance of employee enablement, it makes sense to clarify exactly what it is. With employee enablement, you are moving employees beyond the stage of just being engaged with the Organization goals and their interest in the brand. Instead, you provide the guidance and then empower employees to continue to learn, develop and get the necessary training to continue providing quality results.

If your employees are not enabled, they cannot be expected to perform at a superior level because they have not been provided the right tools, training material, resources or even have the necessary skills. Many times organizations focus on employee engagement and wonder how employee enablement is different. Employee enablement gives employees the ability to continue performing high-level job functions, while employee engagement ensures your team is dedicated to the company vision and overall goals.

Why Employee Enablement Matters for Your Organization?

Better Revenue

In an "Aon Hewitt report" for every 1% increase in employee engagement, you can expect to see an additional 0.6% growth in sales for an organization.  A major reason employee enablement is important for the organizations is the impact it can have on organization revenue. When it comes down to any business decision or basis for measurement, what revenue is and how it can grow is always a top priority. By enabling employees with the right tools, assets, learning material, and continuing to give them opportunities for growth, you are greatly increasing skill sets and productivity. Which of course, in turn, can lead to a positive impact on overall revenue. 

Employee Performance

Employee enablement is also greatly important for the overall performance of employees. If more employees start exceeding expectations and reach a high-level status of performance, your organization output will greatly increase and positively affect customer interactions and sales. More than likely, your organization will already have some top performers who were not necessarily enabled. By providing average employees enablement, you can now increase the number of high-level employees and improve organization performance.

What Leadership Can Do About Employee Enablement ?

Since employee effectiveness is important to the success of the organization, here is what you and other leaders of the organization can do.

• Ensure employees have the right learning materials and tools that further enhance their skills and value in the workplace. 

• Spend a significant amount of time, energy and resources following up and reinforcing learning and engagement principles. 

• Incentives for employee growth/performance recognition. Understand how gamifying your business can help keep engagement moving to get more employees ready for enablement.

Summary

Employee enablement is an essential piece for your organization and the benefits to revenue, lead generation and employee retention are no-brainers. Many times we only think about employee engagement and forget that in order to keep employees engaged that we have to then continue to enable them. Leadership should remember to provide the necessary tools, training, and resources that will ultimately develop employee skill sets and help them grow within their career. When your employees are enabled, they will create outstanding experiences that give your business an advantage that positively affects revenue, employee performance and retention. Professional branding is also required for this Employment enablement.