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Empowerment and Leadership

Empowerment and Leadership. Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.). Leadership: Texas Hold ‘ em Style. Empowerment. EM (to make into) POWER (ability to do or act) MENT (action , process, or skill)

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Empowerment and Leadership

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  1. Empowerment and Leadership Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.)

  2. Leadership: Texas Hold ‘em Style

  3. Empowerment • EM (to make into) • POWER (ability to do or act) • MENT (action, process, or skill) • “Empowerment is the process of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, take action, and control work and decision making in autonomous ways.” Susan M. Heathfield

  4. Can you Empower? “Empowerment is the process of enabling…..”

  5. We Really mean - To Reach full potential; and To increase potential. We reach and increase potential by increasing access to power.

  6. Types of Power • Positional • Expert • Compensatory • Referent

  7. Based on Job Assignment; Usually official bestowed; Positional Power “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

  8. Knowing a task, usually better than subordinates. Expert Power “Knowledge is power.” Sir Francis Bacon

  9. The ability to reward team members. Rewards can be praise, cash, a corner office, a title, control over schedule and priorities, recommendations, choice of the next assignment, promotion, or any number of things. Compensatory “You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.” Amy Tan

  10. Respect of your subordinates. Usually developed when you have a track record of making successful decisions and you develop bonds with your subordinates. Referent Power “Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.” Woodrow Wilson

  11. Effectiveness Referent Expert Compensatory Positional Difficulty in obtaining, increasing and keeping

  12. Empowerment Leadership Activity Referent Expert Supervision/Management Activity Compensatory Positional

  13. People become empowered through leadership and by becoming leaders.

  14. The art of influencing human behavior toward organizational goals.

  15. Components of Leadership that empower • Art • Influence • Behavior • Organizational Goals

  16. www.pokerleadership.com/empowerment.pptx

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