Empowering employees is the ongoing process of providing the tools, training, resources, encouragement and motivation your workers need to perform at the optimum level. If your organization is looking for a way to speed processes and still produce quality materials and services, focus on employee empowerment. When you show an employee you trust her, and give her timely information and the authority to find solutions, she will be able to solve problems and provide solutions more rapidly than someone without that empowerment.