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Empowering others.(REQUIRED READING)(types of people empowerment)
Once you know how to empower people, how to motivate and inspire them, they will want to work with you to help you achieve your goals in everything you do. Your ability to enlist the knowledge, energy and resources of others enables you to become a multiplication sign, to leverage yourself so that you accomplish far more than the average person and in a far shorter period of time.
There are three types of people that you want to and need to empower on a regular basis. They are, first of all, the people closest to you: your family, your friends, your spouse and your children. Second are your work relationships: your staff, your coworkers, your peers, your colleagues and even your boss. Third are all the other people that you interact with in your day-to-day life: your customers, your suppliers, your banker, the people with whom you deal in stores, restaurants, airplanes, hotels and everywhere else. In each case, your ability to get people to help you is what will make you a more powerful and effective person.
Empower means "putting power into," and it can also mean "bringing energy and enthusiasm out of." So the first step in empowering people is to refrain from doing anything that disempowers them or reduces their energy and enthusiasm for what they are doing. The deepest need that each person has is for self-esteem, a sense of being important, valuable and worthwhile. Everything that you do in your interactions with others affects their self-esteem in some way. You already have an excellent frame of reference to determine the things that you can do to boost the self-esteem and therefore the sense of personal power of those around you. Give them what you'd like for yourself.
There are three simple things that you can do every single day to empower others and make them feel good about themselves.
Appreciation
Perhaps the simplest way to make another person feel good about him or herself is your continuous expressions of appreciation for everything that person does for you, large or small. Say "thank you" on every occasion. The more you thank other people for doing things for you, the more things those other people will want to do. Every time you thank another person, you cause that person to like him/herself better. You raise their self-esteem and improve their self-image. You cause them to feel more important. You make them feet that what they did was valuable and ...
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- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Self-leadership: a process for entrepreneurial success.
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...will later be applied to entrepreneurship. Self-Leadership Overview Self-leadership describes a self-influence process through which people can and do achieve the self-direction and self-motivation necessary to perform their tasks and...
