The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Empowering Leaders" and will show you the change that comes over individuals, teams and relationships when you empower your staff.

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EMPOWERING LEADERS
Stand out and be a role model to others
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Empowering
Leaders
Introduction: The typical manager in a hierarchical organisation has a quite different
perception of their role than the manager in an empowered organisation. In a hierarchy,
the manager sees themselves as the decision-taker, the rule-giver, and the problem-
solver. In an empowered set-up, all these roles can pass to the team, leaving the
manager to play a new and different role.

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When change is necessary, sow seeds of empowerment
1. HELP
OTHERS TO
CHANGE
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When you change from top-down control
to bottom-up empowerment, many people
are affected. Senior managers may worry
about the re-distribution of power.
Employees may wonder if this means more
work for them. And customers may
seriously wonder if they will get the same
service as before. Managing change
successfully becomes a key skill of the
empowering manager.

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2. CREATE THE
RIGHT
ENVIRONMENT
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Sir Alec Ferguson, manager of Manchester United
In his first training session at Manchester
United, Eric Cantona asked his manager,
Alex Ferguson, for 2 players. Ferguson
wanted to know why. Cantona replied, "To
practise". Ferguson agreed, and after
watching them work moves out together,
turned to his coach and said, "You know,
this is what management is all about,
creating the right environment for them to
help one another."

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The leader is the team’s biggest fan
3. BE THE
TEAM'S
CHEERLEADER
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One of the key roles of the empowering
manager is to be the bridge between the
team and people outside the team. He or
she needs to be a master communicator,
able to move effortlessly around all the
different styles of communicating, from
one-to-one motivating conversations to
team talks, from listening actively to
influencing stakeholders such as senior
management.

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4. GROW
TALENT
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Whatever they’re good at, make them better
In empowered organisations, teams get to
grow up. They have more power, have a
strong sense of "who we are", and are able
to resolve conflict themselves. Jack Welch,
when CEO of General Electric, did exactly
that with his team of top managers. "My
main job was developing talent. I was a
gardener providing water and other
nourishment to our top 750 people."

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Be like a bee: nurture the talents of everyone
5. A BEE WITH
POLLEN
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Walt Disney was once asked by a little boy
touring his studios, "Do you draw Mickey
Mouse?" "No, I don't," he replied. "Then do
you think up all the jokes?" "No, I don't".
"So, Mr Disney, what do you do?". After a
moment's thought, Disney replied, "Well, I
think of myself as a little bee. I go from one
studio to another and gather pollen and
stimulate everyone. I'm a bee with pollen."

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6. FROM COP
TO COACH
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Coach them to fulfil their potential
Management guru, Tom Peters, coined the
phrase "from cop to coach" to describe the
new role of the empowering manager. The
change takes them...
a. from nay-sayer to yea-sayer
b. from restrainer to helper
c. from work scheduler to work co-
ordinator
d. from controller to releaser
e. from one of them to one of us.

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Work together on what you each do best
7. THEY
MANAGE, YOU
LEAD
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Leadership means getting results through
people and that is where the focus of the
empowering manager lies: breathing life
into the vision of "why we're working
here"; creating a climate in which others
are prepared to take risks; and in the
process creating more leaders in the team.

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This has been a Slide Topic from Manage Train Learn
AFinal
Word
The role of the empowering leader requires a new way of looking at what "management" means. It
can mean new skills, new assumptions about people, and a whole new way of looking at work.