{"id":18191,"date":"2018-07-23T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12932"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:45","slug":"empower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/empower\/","title":{"rendered":"Empower!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12935\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/August-Flowers-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"August Flowers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\nLeadership authorities say empowerment is a critical leadership skill today.\u00a0 From LERN\u2019s UGotClass on Leadership Development last month, here\u2019s dialogue that delves into why empowerment is so important for your lifelong learning program and your leadership right now.<br \/>\n<strong>Sandra Whitfield<br \/>\n<\/strong>A leader believes in the potential of each of the individuals, and is intentional about their individual development. Connected to this, the leader empowers each member of the group\/organization to be and do their best.<br \/>\n<strong>UGotClass Instructor<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sandra, thanks for bringing up empowerment. Most leadership authorities and authors see empowerment as either key or the primary way that both leaders and organizations become successful today.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think &#8220;empowerment&#8221; has been a concept and practice that has always been seen as central; but in the last ten years it sure has.<br \/>\n<strong>Matt Packett<br \/>\n<\/strong>What do you feel is the cause of this?<br \/>\n<strong>UGotClass Instructor<br \/>\n<\/strong>Great question Matt. Really great question. I think it goes to the destruction of the organizational pyramid of the last century. Note: we all know what an organizational pyramid it looks like and what it means. But 100 years ago they had to describe what it was.<br \/>\nAnd what the research shows is that a network organizational structure, what people used to call &#8220;flat organizations&#8221; is actually superior in terms of communication, information and making the right decisions faster.<br \/>\nTo do that, one has to empower people. It&#8217;s the only way. So I think leadership authorities are correct in highlighting empowerment of workers now.<br \/>\nAnd as a future or emerging leader, you should be aware of this dynamic going on from pyramid to network organizational structure.<br \/>\nManagement expert Jennifer Selke of Berkeley, California, adds, \u201cSupervisors can account for up to 76% of the variance in their staff members\u2019 engagement.\u201d\u00a0 Selke will be doing a new session, \u201cBeing a Great Manager,\u201d at the big <a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/events-education\/2018-lern-annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LERN Annual Conference<\/a> in Savannah Nov. 6-9, 2018.<br \/>\nThe UGotClass course is part of y\/our Certificate in Leadership Development, one of our Top 20 online certificates and one of the most popular with your Gen Y participants.\u00a0For more on how you can earn 50% of the income by promoting it in your area, email us at <a href=\"mailto:info@ugotclass.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@ugotclass.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership authorities say empowerment is a critical leadership skill today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18870,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions\/18870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}