Jennifer Panehal Module 12

My favorite part of the chapter was the part about Modeling, Pathfinding, Aligning, and Empowerment. What was really inspiring about this was it is based around trusting one another. Trust then builds us to find who we are inside, our voice, and it gives us passion to then empower others. The chapter then goes into how to empower in the workplace such as managers, and how to have a win-win situation which is extremely important, but something we rarely see happen in our jobs. I would love to work in a place filled with passion, empowerment, and where we all have the same goal and plan to get there! The section on plan, evaluate, do, and then serve represents how we as leaders can spread the empowerment from now only our work place, but to the people around us who we want to empower, and who we want to share our passion towards a goal with. The figure on page 265 about the difference between a manager and a leader once again demonstrates how different one is treated when trying to control vs. trying to create passion in another.
In our final project for the class we used some of the examples from this chapter in our speech about how Communications is important in the field of Psychology. It really tied it all together because as a Psychologist, it is important for your client to feel empowered and motivated by you, not managed and controlled!