6 quick ways to empower your teams

  • Have a new hire training programme in place as well as a continuing training programme.
  • Be passionate; Set examples; Educate your team by doing, not by lecturing.
  • Share stories of remarkable customer service with your team.
  • Encourage your team to learn from one another and seek company-wide collaboration.
  • Develop clear work ethics and principles, and make sure everyone is aware of them.
  • Let team members be themselves; Enable them to shine.

By Noa Eshed, co-author of "The Smart Marketer's Guide to Google AdWords”, content lover, certified journalist & lawyer. She consults and helps businesses create significant presence online.

Edited by ‘Dele Dele-Olukoju, Marketing Communication consultant and publisher of the online Marketing Communication Digest. He writes from Lagos, Nigeria.

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