CDEV067 - Creating and Supporting an Empowered Culture in the Workplace

Course Description

People who practice empowerment participate and contribute at high levels, are creative and innovative, take sound risks, are willing to be held accountable, and demonstrate leadership. When properly understood and developed, empowerment can help individuals authentically and meaningfully engage in their work and in their organizations. This practical and participatory course will explore the best practices, skills, and tools necessary to create and support an empowered culture within the contemporary organizational context.

Course Outline

• Orientation: What is Empowerment?

• Key Empowerment Competencies

• Empowerment Reflections and Explorations

• Tools to Promote

• Empowerment During Change and Uncertainty

• Commitment to Action-Oriented Empowerment Plans

Learner Outcomes

• Gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of empowerment and how it can be skillfully applied in particular workplace contexts

• Learn skills, tools and practices necessary to create and support an empowered culture

• Meaningful exploration and dialogue on existing empowerment challenges and opportunities

• Commitment to an action-oriented empowerment strategy