Student Empowerment Whats In Your Bag

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Student EmpowermentWhats In Your Bag?

• Krystal N. Clark, M.Ed.
• Coordinator of Fraternity Sorority Life Duke
  University
• 3.7.2009

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Outline What is she going to talk about?

• Definition/Dimensions of Empowerment
• Power
• Self- Empowerment
• Environment Empowerment
• Importance of Empowerment
• QA
• Thats All Folks!!

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Definitions of Empowerment

• Give someone the authority or power to do
  something
• Enable someone to do something
• Make someone stronger and more confident

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Two Dimensions of Empowerment

• The sense of self that claims ownership, claims a
  place in the process, and expects to be involved
• A set of environmental conditions that promote
  the full involvement of participants by reducing
  the barriers that block development of individual
  talent and involvement

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• Empowerment is claimed as well as shared with
  others
• I have a legitimate right to be here.
• You should be involved in this you have a right
  to be here too tell us what you think or feel.

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POWERThe key gift that leaders can offer is
power.
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What do you do well? What is in your bag?
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5 Primary Sources of Power

• Expert Power
• Referent Power
• Legitimate Power
• Coercive Power
• Reward Power
• Do you recognize these types of power in your
  organization? Who holds these types of power in
  your organization?

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Self- Empowerment

• I am a capable human being.
• I like the way I handle problems.
• I can show others a good example.
• My possibilities are endless.
• Taking risks is the path to growth.
• If I think I can, I can. And if I think I cant,
  Im right.

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Six methods of Self-Empowerment

• Educating- Education remains the key to both
  economic and political empowerment.- Barbara
  Jordan
• Leading
• Structuring
• Providing- Be of service. Whether you make
  yourself available to a friend or a co-worker, or
  you make time every month to do volunteer work,
  there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling
  of empowerment than being of service to someone
  in need.- Gillian Anderson
• Mentoring
• Actualizing- Just do it.- NIKE

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Is your environment empowering?

• Do people recognize that things can be better
  than they are now?
• Does the organization expect to learn and seek
  new solutions to existing problems?
• Does the organization operate on trust and
  inclusivity?
• Are the dynamics of the group encouraging?
• Is there an absence of an in-group and out-group?

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Empowerment is achieved by enabling the
involvement of group members and conveying faith
in them.
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Why is empowerment important to student
organizations?
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Summary--What did she just say?

• Empowerment is important. You must empower others
  to do and be their best.
• It is important to understand the dynamics of
  power. Leaders must be willing to share power and
  participants must be willing to assume more
  responsibility for group outcomes.
• Know yourself and it will increase your level of
  self-empowerment.
• Work to create an environment that is empowering
  to those around you.

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Questions? Thanks and have a great day!