EMPOWERMENT IS NOT

There is a good deal of misinformation floating around about empowerment. For example:

Image   Empowerment means “hands off.” Some managers and even some team leaders think when a team is empowered, the manager is supposed to do “nothing.” This is abandonment.

Image   Empowerment of the team means unempowerment of the manager. This is also a myth. In an empowered world, the role of the manager changes and grows more complex, but is certainly no less important.

   Empowerment means the manager is no longer accountable for results. Wrong. ...

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