Your Tip of the Week for Success in Work and Life: Success Tip of the Week - How and When to Empower

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Your Tip of the Week for Success in Work and Life Success Tip of the Week - How and When to Empower From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources Here is the current issue of Your Tip of the Week for Success in Work and Life. What motivates the motivators? These tips do! Your Motivational Tip and your links to a short Take Action Tip and a Supporting Resource follow. Motivational Tip Quotes of the Week "Don't ever expect anyone to 100 percent commit themselves to supporting a project, a direction or a practice unless they had input into creating it." --Susan Heathfield "Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." --Gloria Steinem "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success." --Stephen R. Covey Take Action Tip Team Building and Delegation: How and When to Empower People Employee involvement is creating an environment in which people have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their jobs. Team building occurs when the manager knows when to tell, sell, consult, join, or delegate to staff. As an example, you almost never want to "tell" an adult what to do unless a safety factor is involved. Adults resent being told and find ways to circumvent command and control leadership. For employee involvement and empowerment, both team building and delegation rule. Learn more. Supporting Resource Twelve Tips for Team Building People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. Here are twelve tips for building successful work teams. This email is written by: Susan M. Heathfield Human Resources Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Your Tip of the Week for Success in Work and Life' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement