If you head up and kind of organization - a business, club, church, or family - learning to empower others is one of the most important things you'll ever do as its leader. Empowerment has an incredibly high return. It not only helps the individuals you raise up by making them more confident, energetic, and productive, but it also has the ability to improve your life, give you additional freedom, and promote the growth and health of your organization.
Farzin Madjidi, program liason for the city of Los Angeles, has expressed his beliefs concerning empowerment: "We need leaders who empower people and create other leaders. It's no longer good enough for a manager to make sure that everybody has something to do and is producing. Today, all employees must 'buy in' and take ownership of everything they're doing. To foster this, it's important that employees should make decisions that most directly affect them. That's how the best decisions are made. That's the essence of empowerment." When it comes down to it, empowering leadership is sometimes the only real advantage one organization has over another has over another in our competitive society.
As you empower others, you will find that most aspects of your life will change for the better. Empowering others can free you personally to have more time for the important things in your life, increase the effectiveness of your organization, increase your influence with others and, best of all, make an incredibly positive impact on the loves of the people you empower.
SOURCE: Becoming A Person of Influence
Leadership Challenge:
IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY, BEGIN EMPOWERING SOMEONE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION TODAY.
Do You Want to Gain Financial Wealth and Spiritual Abundance at the Same Time? - Bo Sanchez
Do You Want to Gain Financial Wealth and Spiritual Abundance at the Same Time? - Bo Sanchez
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