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Give Your Employees a Knife

Lead Change Blog

Competitive advantage today requires cutting edge innovation, distinctive service, and lightning fast responsiveness. Since personal power is already present in every employee, empowerment is not a gift given by the leader. The job of the leader is to release power. Servant denotes compliance, partner denotes community.

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The Anatomy of a Practical Genius

Women on Business

That’s what practical genius is all about: identifying and leveraging both the soft and hard unique personal assets each of us possesses. Of course, it’s also about using those assets to open doors, attract opportunity, leverage personal power, and succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Working for joy, innovation and autonomy is.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. High performing leaders score in the healthy range of Power – neither overly strong nor weak. Too weak and the leader shrinks from being in charge and their own personal power. Under-performers were trained to replicate motivation patterns of high performers.

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5 Ways to Lead with Empathy

Leading with Trust

Investing in training is an example. Our Self Leadership course teaches five points of power you can use to help your people succeed: Position Power: Having the title or authority to make certain decisions. Task Power: Having control over a task or particular job. They’ll be more innovative. They’ll be engaged.

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8 Ways to Grant Intelligent Autonomy

Lead Change Blog

Relatedly, supervisors who reported higher levels of empowerment were seen by their subordinates as more innovative, upward influencing, and inspirational. Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy. Communication needs to be a two-way street. 7) Covet Communication Loops.