January 30, 2013 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management, Professional Development

Empowerment is NOT delegating work you hate to do.

Too many times “managers” view empowerment as just another way to get out of things they don’t like to do – which isn’t true.  Yes, I will say that I’ve made it my life’s work to help people find what they do well and do more of it as well as eliminating or reducing things they don’t do well or don’t like doing, but that’s not what I’m talking about here.    Empowerment embodies both the responsibility and the authority to do   something, but too many times managers miss one of those two components which is critical to empowerment.