4. 15-4
Empowerment
Empowerment
sharing varying
degrees of power
with lower-level
employees to tap
their full potential
5. World Bank says:
“Empowerment is the process of increasing
the capacity of individuals or groups to make
choices and to transform those choices into
desired actions and outcomes.”
10. To become empowered
Take responsibility
Share responsibility
Enhance personal & team creativity
Be prepared
Maintain balance b/w work & life
Do a job with enjoyment
Keep learning
11. Empowering Others
To empower others, a Leader Needs:
Position
Relationship
Respect
Commitment
12. If you are trying to do it all, you are
harming your organization.
In attempting to do it all, leaders find themselves:
1. Working overtime
2. Spread too thin
3. Attending unnecessary seminars/meetings
4. Taking on others’ work
5. Rescuing others
6. Neglecting leadership duties
7. Feeling overwhelmed and burning out
8. Feeling frustrated and guilty for not getting things done
9. Neglecting their personal lives
10. Creating a bottleneck in the organization
14. Empowerment is a Process
Determining the skill level
Providing training as needed
Assign & Delegate important
tasks.
Coaching tasks
Help build strong
relationships.
Give visibility and
recognition.
17. Benefits :
Improved employer satisfaction.
By being shared, organizational power can grow.
Employees to perform better.
Increases trust in the organization.
Reduces Turnover rates.
18. Complications
Giving up control can be threatening to
some managers.
Managers may not want to share power
with someone they look down upon.
Managers fear losing their own place and
special privileges in the system.
19. Real Case Study:
Story of YIC Student
AbdulAziz Al Hawash
Training In Samref
20. If you feel you are
dis-empowered
Think about yourself after
seeing this
Video 3