Empowerment

 Empowerment is a process enabling individuals to understand the relationship between their actions and outcomes, allowing people the power to achieve the result they desire. Empowerment means that people are equal citizens. They are respected and confident in their communities. You can't empower someone else or make someone empowered. It is about ways of working and supporting someone that means they can take control and responsibility for their own lives. Personal empowerment is the sense that you are in control of your life. It enables you to make positive decisions, and to take action that will bring you closer to achieving your goals and ambition. Empowerment is pure validation, state of being in which we recognize and celebrate our own or someone else's potential. It means valuing abilities, goals and learning. It aids someone to feel appreciated, supported, and motivated. It gives someone the sense of control in their life and creates purpose. Empowerment means to do meaningful work, to have competence in their job, to have self-determination, and to make an impact. The context of empowerment -structure empowerment, empowering leadership and individual characteristics-lead o individual psychological empowerment and team empowerment.