SLIDE 1 Empowerment in a Disempowered Culture
Leadership Is For Everyone November 4, 2016
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SLIDE 2 Our Plan Today
- Explore the concepts of power & authority
- Explore ways to empower others
- Recognize strategies for becoming more
empowered
- Appreciate why coaching results
in feelings of empowerment
- Define an empowered culture
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Our Main Context is the Workplace.
SLIDE 4 Suspend your previous notions…
- Please try to pretend you know
nothing about power or empowerment.
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“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
SLIDE 6
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
SLIDE 7 What is Power?
- the amount of energy consumed per
unit of time
- the rate at which energy is converted
from one form to another
SLIDE 8
(Personal) Power
the rate at which you convert your human energy (psychological, physical, spiritual, mental) into your own fulfillment or well-being You have power. Intrinsically.
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(Personal) Power
the rate at which you convert your human energy (psychological, physical, spiritual, mental) into your own fulfillment or well-being You have power. Intrinsically. Dominance/coercion/abuse of authority are often mistaken as power.
SLIDE 10 (Personal) Power
You can feel it when that power is being
*Discovery *Mastery *Autonomy *Accomplishment (meaning/purpose fulfilled)
SLIDE 11 https://blogs.cdc.gov/yourhealthyour environment/2016/04/04/healthy- community-design/ http://www.jble.af.mil/News/Article- Display/Article/843277/mayors-book- club-promotes-reading-at-langley-cdc
SLIDE 12 Get in touch with your experience
Take a minute to quietly recall:
- The best job I ever had. Why
was it the best?
- A real high point in my work life.
Why was it such a high point?
- What happens on a good day at
work? What makes it so good? and/or
- A time when you discovered or
mastered something.
SLIDE 13 Clump into groups of 3:
- Share your examples of feeling
empowered (at work.)
- Listen for the empowerment.
- Choose the clearest example of
feeling empowered.
SLIDE 14 Discuss in your clump of 3:
- How would you empower people
(at work?)
- What kinds of things would you
do? (real situations or imagined)
SLIDE 15 Trust them, and also:
- 1. Set them up for success.
- 2. Model expectations for them.
- 3. Voice confidence in them
(individually and publically.)
- 4. Transfer authority to them.
- 5. Give them feedback.
- 6. Coach them.
- 7. Launch them.
SLIDE 16 “People are already empowered. What you do as a leader is give them the voice and authority to exercise the empowerment that they naturally have.”
David Marquet 6 myths about empowering employees.com
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- 1. Set up for success: get the
knowledge/skill/experience you need.
- 2. Model warm professionalism. Always show
respect.
- 3. Voice your confidence, willingness and
- ptimism that with their support you can
succeed and accomplish the shared goal.
- 4. Request opportunity.
- 5. Ask for feedback.
Conversely, if you want to feel more empowered (at work) what should you do?
SLIDE 18 TRUSTWORTHINESS
Judgment CHARACTER COMPETENCE
1993 Covey Leadership Center, Inc.
- Integrity
- Maturity
- Abundance
Mentality
SLIDE 19
Authority
SLIDE 20 Authority
– Position or job in a hierarchy
– Depth of knowledge or experience
– Exemplar of proper conduct, adherence to truth
- (Charisma, and celebrity are often
mistaken for authority)
SLIDE 21 Authority
– Agreement or transaction between people in the hierarchy – In exchange for (work) the subordinate agrees that the authority has the right to make the decisions, reward and punish, hire and fire, etc. – The authority agrees to set the goals, compensate, obey laws and protect the subordinates, reward and punish.
SLIDE 22 In general, in democracies, at work…
- Other people can have power over us
because we give our power to them (as a transaction.)
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SLIDE 24 https://twitter.com/regenceoregon
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SLIDE 26 http://supermanposesthroughhistory.tumblr.com/
SLIDE 27 http://www.usmagazine.co m/celebrity- news/news/chicago-cubs- win-world-series-2016- after-108-year-drought- w448338
We don’t always realize
power on the first try.
SLIDE 28 https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/101- business-ideas/9780273786191/html/chapter-079.html
It’s Time to Practice
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Coaching
A coach is a strategic thinking partner… asks questions that illicit the wisdom from within the PBC that is not immediately apparent to the PBC. For example: – What 3 words do you want people to use when they describe you? What do you need to do to live those 3 words? – What is draining you/your team? – What would you do if there were no rules?
SLIDE 30
Coaching
Coaching causes someone to feel empowered. It helps to provide perspective, create focus, clarify intention, motivate, build accountability. Discovery occurs during coaching. When the PBC acts on the strategies they create in coaching, mastery & accomplishment result. The PBC directs the coaching agenda. This feeds the sense of autonomy.
SLIDE 31 Culture of Empowerment
…a favorable environment in which people are encouraged to learn, to grow their skills, and to experiment…
+/- Marshall Goldsmith
SLIDE 32 Resources
- Heifetz, RA. Leadership Without Easy
- Answers. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press
- f Harvard University Press, 1994.
- Coe, C, Zehnder, A, Kinlaw, DC. Coaching
for Commitment: Achieving Superior Performance from Individuals and Teams, Pfeiffer, 2007.
- Amy Cuddy TED talk on power
https://www.ted.com/speakers/amy_cuddy
SLIDE 33 Kathy I. Kennedy, DrPH, MA Clinical Professor, Colorado School
Kathy.Kennedy@ucdenver.edu Director, Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership Kathy.Kennedy@du.edu
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