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We worked on a definition of Power to help us understand how we as employees can affect positive change in an organization.  We extended our discussion to empowerment and how we can help others affect positive change as well.  Here is a statement about empowerment we came up with as a class from our notebook material, a video, and our discussions:

Empowerment begins by establishing clear goals and objectives by communication. It will have a formal and informal power base for the individual or group. The empowerment decision involve choosing the appropriate people for the goals based on skills, abilities, and willingness. The empowerment choice also  recognizes their skills and will give freedom for ownership of the responsibility and accountability.  Measures must be in place for the empowered to make fact based decisions, and clear expectations of outcome and ongoing support with participation should occur from top down within the organization.

Someone asked me for some information on Goal setting. I have posted some here:
GOAL SETTING
 

Please submit your CPM outside requirement work on "work process improvement" to the Davis Award
Panel.  You can find a nomination form on the web page: http://www.floridataxwatch.org/

Don't Forget to visit the CPM Web Page for our schedule:  http://www.fsu.edu/~cpm/
Visit Sterling's webpage to see how other organizations improve: http://www.floridasterling.com/

Don't forget to read Improvement Driven Government and to write the application.  Also, look at the comp Exam and begin that process also.  I hope to hear from you again soon.  Send me an E-mail.