Empowering Your Team

Who will benefit by attending?

This workshop is for Supervisors, Managers, and Team Leaders who will benefit by understanding empowerment concepts that are intended to support, enhance and develop skills in facilitating empowered Self Managed Teams. This workshop stimulates awareness of an individual’s responsibilities around empowerment issues and promotes culture change.

Workshop content:

	^{Defining and understanding empowerment.}
	^{Being empowered, empowering yourself, empowering others.}
	^{Aspects of empowerment: autonomy, centrality, involvement, control, influence, resources, and climate.}
	^{Key organizational conditions for developing an empowered team culture.}
	^{The importance of trust, respect and caring when empowering.}
	^{Self Managed versus Traditional Organizations.}
	^{Case studies of organizations that have created Self Managed Teams.}
	^{Suggested elements of best practice.}
	^{Understanding and moving to a Self Managed Team culture.}
	^{Creating and communicating a vision for your team.}
	^{Managing change and resistance to change.}
	^{Understanding the change process.}
	^{Institutionalizing change.}
	^{Producing a plan for empowering a Self Managed Team.}

Workshop outcomes:

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to: understand their own issues around implementing empowerment; create, develop and empower Self Managed Teams that are enthusiastic and motivated.

Duration

One Day.