Leadership (Empowerment)
Leadership Characteristic: Empowerment
A leadership characteristic that has become more popular lately is empowerment. Leaders that empower their team give them more decision making power, less supervision and more responsibility thereby giving them a greater sense of achievement, pride and ownership of the project or tasks. Empowering people can be as simple as delegating tasks or asking for input in a decision to being as complex as allowing a group or individual to expand upon an idea then implement the task.
This quality is not seen very often in my workplace however, there is an executive in a vice presidents role within our college who has this characteristic. She is a person who will schedule meetings at irregular intervals, buy us lunch, and discuss issues surrounding the college. As we are in the process of building a new campus, most of the discussion surrounds the building, equipment, layout and needs that we have as a campus. This person has empowered the staff in
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