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    Empower your best people to do more

    Medium effort

    Medium impact

    While the temptation might be to focus on bringing the skill levels of your less experienced and confident members of the business, giving your best the chance to do more should not be neglected. Often these kind of people are sitting there waiting to be given some extra responsibility, expanded role or new project. Get empowering them today and see what extra energy they can bring to the business.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline
    What's involved? Ways to use this action plan Measuring impact
    1

    Catalogue the last three times you can think that a member of your team went the extra mile and speak to them to establish what prompted the action

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    It's important to link the behaviour you want to see more of from your best people to the underlying motivations that led them to exhibit it in the first place. The inspiration will more often than not be different person to person, so start with this to lay a foundation for later decisions.

    2

    Spend some time learning about how other businesses have gone about empowering their best staff

    Impact: low

    Why will this help?

    Learning from the experiences and lessons of fellow business leaders is the best way to direct your own improvement efforts.

    Getting the most out of your best people

    You utilise hours and numerous resources to track down the best people for your vacancies, but once you’ve found them, how do you ensure that you get the most out of your latest employee?
    3

    Set out three new ways you will look to devolve responsibility and give greater autonomy to members of your team

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Giving top performing employees extra responsibility is a great way to encourage them to further stretch their abilities and ambition. It will also free you up to work on things you might have otherwise been neglecting.

    Why is delegation so important?
    4

    Create a new monthly correspondence with all your staff where you celebrate the ways in which certain members of the team have gone the extra mile

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    It's important to draw attention to the actions and behaviour you'd like to see more of. Not only does it encourage those being celebrated to do more but also introduce other members of staff to the ways in which they could look to improve their performance.

    5

    Give employees a voice by hosting a quarterly "town hall" meeting where they are able to freely table improvement suggestions and then be given ownership of certain new activities

    Impact: high

    Why will this help?

    Transforming your meetings will bring everyone together in a constructive, results-orientated way. These kind of communal get togethers have been proven to increase engagement and solidify improvements that might otherwise be short lived.

    How to make your town hall meetings engaging

    Town hall meetings, where you bring all your employees together for an open discussion, can be valuable for refocusing staff and sharing information – but are they working for you?

    What can I do with this Action Plan?

    Start this Action Plan

    Add some extra information to this plan and we’ll help you get it done.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline

    Download and print

    Get a printable template for this Action Plan, fill it in with some target dates, and share it with your team. Pin it on the wall where everyone can see it.

    Get the printable Action Plan

    Learning Groups

    We also run Learning Groups on these topics where you can join other leaders tackling the same challenges.

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    How will I know if my action plan is working?

    Staff satisfaction survey results

    Staff satisfaction surveys help gauge sentiment at regular intervals

    Why this metric?

    Whether gathered anonymously or not, staff satisfaction surveys help gauge the sentiment of your people as changes are made and impacts felt.

    How do I start tracking?

    Use an online survey to get feedback from members of staff three and six months after making changes to see what impact it has had.