Tag: empowerment
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Create the environment for people to act empowered
Posted by Simon Baker
Granting authority (and freedom) to someone doesn't guarantee they will be empowered. If the environment is unsafe, or perceived to be unsafe, then the fear factor is likely to be too great for that person to speak up or take action. It feels like empowerment is something that comes from the environment itself. It's constructed between people, by the actions they take individually in the (physical and mental) space they occupy.
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Thursday, 2 March 2006
Empowered by living freedoms
Posted by Simon Baker
Virginia Satir recognized that each person possesses a personal power, which she thought of as an energy to be used, channeled and directed toward constructive or destructive ends. She said that owning your own power is the beginning of your becoming a choice-maker and becoming a responsible person. Living the five freedoms is the strongest position of personal power that you can have.
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Thursday, 29 December 2005
Being empowered means being prepared to take a chance
Posted by Simon Baker
In an empowered environment, any action means taking some risk because there is the chance of making mistakes. When a team is empowered it has authority to decide how best to achieve a goal and it's acceptable to fail when learning is happening.
Friday, 16 December 2005
What does it mean to be empowered?
Posted by Simon Baker
Understandably, some developers who come from a command and control environment are uncomfortable in a self-organizing team that empowers developers. In a recent post to the Scrum development newsgroup about coaching a developer away from being spoon-fed, an interesting discussion ensued about what it meant to be an empowered developer on a team.
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