Empowerment: How Do You Create an Empowerment Culture?
My coworkers say that they’ve “got my back.”
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Empowerment: What is Empowerment?
It is sometimes difficult to keep up with the trendy terms, the technical jargon, and the buzzwords. Here’s a new one: empowerment. Sounds like a fancy word for “someone dumping their work on me”.
What I have found is if you ask five different people that question, […]
What Is The Self-Concept?
We need a healthy self-concept and a positive self-esteem. However, all of us have areas of our lives we could improve.
Your self-concept is what you believe about yourself. It is your image of who you are. It’s your feelings and thoughts about your strengths and weaknesses. Your self-concept is your thoughts and feelings about your […]
What Strategies Influence Others?
There are several strategies you can implement that influence others. Finding a copy of the mission statement or value statement would be a good start.
Use facts and data to make logical and rational presentations of ideas. Solid reasoning is persuasive.
Use flattery, create goodwill, act humbly, and be friendly long before you make a request. Friendliness […]
How Do I Increase My Power?
You can increase your power to influence. Power is something you have, whereas influence is something you do.
Power in organizations has three sources. Positional, Relational, and Personal. So don’t forget, there is more to power than position.
Of course positional power is based upon the position you hold in the organization and includes authority, reward, and […]