The Empowerment course is aimed at improving the management of co-workers to proactive action with regard to the company’s vision and values.
In their practice, managers encounter a situation where good and active colleagues do not want to take responsibility for tasks and management for various reasons. Empowerment is a tool that helps at least some of these smart and good workers take on more responsibility and proactivity.
- To improve in leading co-workers to take proactive action with respect to the company’s vision and values.
- To learn to develop co-workers to accept more responsibility and make independent decisions within it.
- To improve in creating conditions for proactive and responsible action.
- To learn how to build healthy self-confidence and openness to change in colleagues.
Empowerment
- Clarification of the concept of Empowerment, what are the goals of empowering colleagues.
- What tools are available to the manager, barriers to Empowerment.
Terms for Empowerment
- Corporate culture – support or obstacle to Empowerment.
- Space for proactivity and independent responsible action, the importance of vision and values.
Key characteristics supporting Empowerment
- Personal responsibility, authentic and direct communication, trust.
- Quick and effective ability to correctly resolve interpersonal and team tensions.
- Emphasis on learning and development, encouragement.
Managerial tools of Empowerment
- Analysis of the potential of a collaborator.
- Setting development goals, development and training programs.
- Different management styles.
- Coaching, motivational feedback, evaluation interviews.
Personal involvement of the manager
- Reflection of one’s own management style (In what is support for development and empowerment
- colleagues and when can it be an obstacle to Empowerment?).
- Encouraging and building healthy self-confidence, support in overcoming personal barriers.
Proactivity and openness to change
- How resistance to change arises and how to overcome it.
- Development of co-workers’ proactivity, change of paradigm about oneself.
Training of selected tools and techniques supporting Empowerment
Possible tasks
- Analysis of the potential of a collaborator.
- Analysis of team (company) culture from the point of view of Empowerment support.
- A plan on how to support and build healthy self-confidence in selected co-workers.
- Custom assignment related to the topic.
