Managing with the Power of NLP: Neurolinguistic Programming; A Model for Better Management, Second Edition

Chapter Five. Power to the People

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• People power

• The business of empowerment

• What kind of power do you have?

• Generating power

• Two important lessons on empowerment

• A question of respect

• Pacing and leading

• Reframing

• The empowering leader

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	The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
	--Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)British Labour politician

The verb to empower is frequently used in modern management speak, but what does it actually mean? The police force are empowered to keep law and order by means of a policy and set of guidelines, or rules, governing their behaviour – what they are and are not allowed to do. The policies and guidelines ...