OverviewHello! We're here this morning to focus on why it's important to delegate and empower our employees. As leaders of the Weapon Systems Division, each of you assumes a leadership role based on your positions that will require your attention in multiple places at the same time...and since no one can do it all, you must delegate and provide the means to promote a positive attitude. and a productive work environment (Bell & Bodie, 2012; Bell & Smith, 2010; Dewettinck & van Ameijde, 2011; Freedman, 2012; Lornikova, Pearsall and Sims Jr., 2013; Luciano, Mathieu and Ruddy, 2013; Martin, Liao and Campbell, 2013; In your positions, as empowering leaders, you each play a critical role in team development by influencing your team's processes and environment. (Lornikova et al., 2013). As our previous mentoring session highlighted, if you fail to listen effectively, you will miss critical instructions, mislead yourself, make less informed decisions, and hopefully never implement a solution. bad policies; If you do not also empower your subordinates and delegate appropriate authorities, you may miss the opportunity to translate the A4/7 vision into reality (Sohmen, 2013). Let us begin with the main purpose for which we are gathered today. Great LeadersThis is not a new concept… as you can read, great leaders have identified why it is important to delegate and empower their subordinates. Each of these leaders accomplished significant events in their lives that impacted everyone. Subordinates undeniably make a difference between empowerment and abandonment and depending on the perception of leadership styles, you as a leader strongly influence the level of empowerment or abandonment (Lucian…. .. middle of article......56(5), 1372-1395. doi:10.5465/amj.2011.0113Proenca, J. (2014). .Academy of Business Research Journal, 1139-153.Sohmen, V. S. (2013). .Urbancic, FR (2011). Internal Auditor, 68(2), 18-19.Zhang, X. and Bartol, KM (2010). psychological empowerment, intrinsic motivation and engagement in the creative process Management Journal, 53(1), 107-128 doi:10.5465/AMJ.2010.48037118Zhang, S., Tremaine, M., Milewski, A. ., Fjermestad, J. and O'Sullivan, P. (2012). Leader delegation in global software teams: Occurrence and effects. Electronic markets, 22(1), 37-48.