How to find an empowering environment
You deserve an environment that doesn’t constrain or diminish you, but one that supports and empowers you.
Research has found that there are several factors that help make an environment more empowering. If you’re evaluating a role or opportunity or an environment, look at these things:
Your manager: Someone who is respectful, shares information openly, and includes people on their team in decision-making. They provide clear, timely, and helpful feedback and coaching. They help their team members to gain skills so that they can do their jobs effectively. They seek to understand you and your goals, and try to help you to get there.
Your resources: How the workplace empowers you with resources. For example: how supportive the company culture is, how valued it makes you feel, how collaborative your colleagues are, how you are compensated, how you are trained. In the organization, it feels like you have a voice, it’s safe to use it, and it’s respected and valued when you share it.
The work itself: You can see the meaning of the work that you do, you have power to choose how you do it, you have variety in your tasks, and it gives you the chance to connect with others in a meaningful way.
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