Saving 10 minutes per day will gain you 41.66 hours per year in productivity not including how the tool helped someone else gain an additional 10 minutes. In our last facility, we used to teach every new hire how to turn off the lights for a 12,000 square foot manufacturing plant as circuit breakers are used. A chart outlining each breaker and a 4 step routine for turning off each breaker for each major area solved the problem forever. Teach once and walk away. Create simple procedures for using the fax machine, turning off the lights to the facility, making a checklist for turning on the compressors or grills, or even where the supplies are kept for the kitchen garbage bags or the mop bucket.
Good companies have structure and systems to empower others.
Empowerment only works when people can do the job expected and standard procedures help to define the results.