Empowerment and Collaboration

Description: This workshop is designed to introduce the concept of empowerment, collaboration and participation as contemporary management practices in corporate settings. It will combine the use of short lectures, group discussion, structured exercise, case studies, and films. The workshop is intended to provide executives, managers, supervisors and non-supervisors with:

• A common language related to the concepts of empowerment, change, collaboration, and participative management.
  

• The basic assumptions about work and workers necessary for empowerment to be an effective management approach.
  

• An understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of creating an empowering or collaborative work environment.
  

• The realization of the various role changes that must occur for a successful shift to a system of empowerment and participation.
  

• The ability to identify behavior that successfully supports a system of participation and empowerment.
  

• An understanding of the roles of measurement and accountability in making a system of empowerment and collaboration successful.