Expanding your personal empowerment

• Assess your present level of personal empowerment. (Be honest. Solicit input from various sources.)

• Determine whether your performance falls below, meets, or exceeds customer expectations.

• If your performance is below expectations, assess your level of commitment. (Seriously reexamine whether you are committed to meeting the expectations of your position. If not, make plans for doing something else.)

• Committed, determine the new skills you require. (If your responsibility and accountability expanded with your new/present position, write details about the new skills you require—personal and/or professional skills.)

• Acquire a mentor/coach to hold you accountable. (Check out the results you produce.)

• Work to overcome your self-limitations. (Let’s talk about self-esteem.)

• If committed to expanded empowerment, define a new challenging area of activity. (Describe a project or an area of activity you would enjoy. This should involve significantly expanded responsibility in terms of the acquisition of new personal and/or professional skills.)

• Proceed and apply steps five and six where difficulties occur. (Get started on the new project; use and learn proven professional methods and knowledge.)