1. Dynamic Empowerment
“Ready, Set, Go…Race to
Your Potential!”
© DW GROUP, LLC 2008

2. Rev-Up Empowerment!
The Flying Wave
Triggers release of Synovial Fluid & BDNF
Warm up our joints as well as our muscles
Engages the Brain with the Body

3. The secret of getting ahead
is getting started.
-Mark Twain

4. Both Leaders and Employees need to focus on Empowerment
From both Perspectives (Bosses/Leaders and
Employees/Colleagues)
Parents & Children (Kids need to earn trust and
parents have to work on empowering their
children)
Significant Others
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

5. Empowerment “Tug of War”
Management Employee

6. Spectrum of Empowerment
Empowerment Summit!
Reward & Recognize
Encourage others Encourage others
Communicate Communicate
Grow & Learn Grow & Learn
Recognize a good job Do a good Job
Allow Empowerment Earn Empowerment
Leaders Colleagues

7. We are the Leaders (or Bosses) of our Own Life
Friends Family
Work Bosses Children
Home Bosses
Significant
Others

8. Use this Program as an Overlay
Communication
Leadership
Skills & Knowledge

10. 5 Key Principles of Empowerment
Awareness
Attitude
Communication
Leadership
Skills & Knowledge
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

11. Awareness ®
Awareness
The "Triple A" Approach
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Empowerment
Ac
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AWARENESS Knowledge of our Response
styles & Mental triggers
Understanding how our
ATTITUDE Thoughts are Affecting our
Reactions
Decide to DO SOMETHING to
ACTION Empower ourselves
© 2008 DW GROUP, LLC

12. Empowerment Temperature
Take your Empowerment
Temperature frequently
Hot is including people, offering
encouragement, reinforcing the
positive, communicating.
Cold is “freezing others out”,
focusing on the negative, not
trusting, not communicating.

13. Awareness
Taking a look “under the hood” Attitude
Action
List of personal Pros and Cons (areas that can be
improved).
What are your talents and strengths, and what needs
work. This is a key to Empowerment. People need
confidence and the right skills to be empowered. It happens
when we prove that we are worthy of Empowerment; that
goes for both perspectives--Leaders and Colleagues.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

14. Empowerment Interviews
Top Plastic Surgeon--FFF
Sales Consultant--Canned Scripts
HR Director—Micromanagement
Internet Marketing Sales—Used Car Salesman
Health Club Sales--No flexibility

15. The Best Damn Ship in the Navy
Captain Abrashoff arrived at several Leadership
Lessons that we can all learn from:
1. Lead by Example
2. Listen Aggressively
3. Communicate Purpose and Meaning
4. Create a Climate of TrustYou have to earn trust, and you can earn it
only by giving it. You have to give people responsibility and freedom to fulfill
that responsibility and then step back and watch them exceed your
expectations. Have the courage to believe in your team. If you don’t truly
trust them, and micromanage, you will get poor performance and alienate
those that could have exceeded your expectations.

16. Key Empowerment Principle
Don't Blame Others (FFF)
Don't blame team members (or family members) for
problems that crop up. Remember that when new ideas
or programs are tried, there are certain to be failures.
Instead of “Forever Focusing on Failure” meet with the
team and ask for ideas to solve problems and
emphasize the positive of trying new ideas.
Focus on the fact that there are good ideas and we
just need to make a few adjustments.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

17. Awareness
Encourage Attitude
Action
Be personally connected
Make it a Habit to say something
positive 1st
“Catch” Someone doing something
good
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

18. Awareness
Communication Attitude
Action
Awareness of How we Communicate
(“Would we want to be spoken to like that?”)
Attitude-The Golden Rule “Say unto
others…”
Action—Positive communication
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

19. Are you actually listening?
Do you interrupt others or finish their sentences?
Are you thinking about what you are going to say while others are still
speaking?
Do you find your mind wandering when others talk?
Do you multitask while speaking to others?
If you answered yes to any of these then you can improve your listening skills.

20. Open Communication
Communication--Open communication is
critical to any Empowerment agenda and
that communication must be both ways.
Everyone needs to feel comfortable that their
communication won't be ridiculed and quickly
dismissed and management must make sure
their communication is inclusive and positive
to breed a "Communication Comfort Zone".
Share the Mission & the Vision
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

21. Goal Writing Research
Study 1
According to Dave Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia
Tech:
People who regularly write down their goals earn nine
times as much over their lifetimes as people who don't.
80% of Americans say they don't have goals.
16% do have goals but don't write them down.
Less than 4% write down their goals and fewer than 1%
review them on an ongoing basis.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

22. Reaching Goals
Writing Down Goals
The act of putting an idea down on paper (or
computer) makes us consider the idea in a
more focused and thoughtful way. What we get
is a more clearly defined view of the issues
surrounding our goals.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

23. We can’t control all the things that happen in our life
But . . .
We can control our RESPONSE to them
if we “Reflect” before we “React”
“It's not worth
“OH !#&$%!” getting upset”
or
We do have a Choice!
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

24. ®
Thank You!
Let’s Rock and Roll!
© 2008 DW GROUP, LLC

25. Real Life Examples of what Empowerment Means to you

26. Empowerment Success!
Empowerment Blast Off!
Management
Employees

27. It’s Empowerment Time!
Let’s Harness the Power of this group
over the next 12 months and Let’s
Empower!!!
I propose that we as a group harness the power of
all of this brainpower and talent and over the next
12 months to implement an Empowerment
initiative that will be impactful, groundbreaking and
literally Life Changing!