So when you think of empowerment, what crosses your mind? Staff that feel confident, trusted, able to do their job because they have both the skills and the knowledge required? I have had to spend some time thinking about what empowering staff is really about seeing as I have been sited as being exceptionally good at it! (see Blog by Renae, the Art of Empowerment).
I’ve always found that being empowered is something that I value in my work/career. Over the years I have experienced a variety of management or leadership styles that have provided varying levels of empowerment but only recently have I experienced what I call “genuine” empowerment.
Now there is a word that has been bandied around and used to represent a myriad of thoughts and feelings. What is empowerment anyway? And what does it mean when someone says they want to be empowered? What does it mean when an organisation professes that it wants to empower its people?
At NNC we often discuss some of NLP's Motivational Thinking Styles and how our patterns of thinking translate into our attitudes, behaviours and ways of communicating. The one that has had the biggest impact on understanding myself and how I interact with others is called Motivation: Toward & Away.
As an accredited facilitator of the Baron Emotional Intelligence Inventory, I have often been told at dinner parties and the like that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) or at least the application of it to work life, is just a fad and will be replaced by something else shortly.
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