Dynamic Empowerment discusses five key principles of empowerment: awareness, attitude, communication, leadership, and skills & knowledge. It emphasizes the importance of setting goals and recommends writing down both personal and professional goals to improve areas like health, relationships, career skills, and success rates. Research shows people who write down goals earn nine times as much over their lifetime as those who don't, and the act of writing goals down makes us consider them in a more focused way. The document encourages taking one's "empowerment temperature" and focusing on empowering oneself and others through positive communication and inclusion.

1. Dynamic Empowerment
Where would we be without Goals?

2. 5 Key Principles of Empowerment
 Awareness
 Attitude
 Communication
 Leadership
 Skills & Knowledge
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

3. Use this Program as an Overlay
Communication
Leadership
Skills & Knowledge

4. Empowerment Temperature
Take your Empowerment Temperature
frequently
 Hot is including people, offering
encouragement, reinforcing the positive,
communicating.
 Cold is “freezing others out”, focusing on
the negative, not trusting, not
communicating.

5. Dynamic Empowerment
“If you don’t know where you are going, how
can you expect to get there?”
-Basil Walsh
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6. What do I want to Accomplish...

7. Many people just go along day to day without
a lot of thought as to what they want to
achieve. Even fewer actually take the time to
write down goals. In fact less than 2%
actually write down specific goals. Imagine
what an opportunity that gives the people
who do write down goals!

8. True or False?
Setting a goal in our minds
changes our brain chemistry.

9. True!
According to the research of psychologists, neurologists,
and other scientists, setting a goal invests ourselves into
the target as if we’d already accomplished it. That is, by
setting something as a goal, however small or large,
however near or far in the future, a part of our brain
believes that desired outcome is an essential part of who
we are – setting up the conditions that drive us to work
towards the goals to fulfill the brain’s self-image.
It also increases Dopamine (reward and motivation brain
chemical) secretion associated with the goal so our
unconscious helps to bring about the achievement of our
goals as well!

10. Goal Writing Research
Study 1
According to Dave Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech:
 People who regularly write down their goals earn nine times
as much over their lifetimes as people who don't.
 80% of Americans say they don't have goals.
 16% do have goals but don't write them down.
 Less than 4% write down their goals and fewer than 1%
review them on an ongoing basis.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

11. Reaching Goals
Writing Down Goals
The act of putting an idea down on paper (or
computer) makes us consider the idea in a
more focused and thoughtful way. What we get
is a more clearly defined view of the issues
surrounding our goals.
© DW GROUP, LLC 2010

12. Dynamic Empowerment
So this month’s Empowerment mission is…
Take a look "under the hood" and think about 2 things you
would like to improve or accomplish this year. One
Personal, (Health, Relationships, Weight Loss, Deep
Breathing, Doing the "Flying Wave" more etc....:) ) and one
Professional, focused on your career. How you might want
to improve skills or success rates and how that might be
accomplished. Just giving these things our mental attention
puts us way ahead of most other people, and add to that
writing your goals down and you are getting a big head-
start toward success in the New Year.

13. We are the Leaders (or Bosses) of our Own Life
Friends Family
Work Bosses Children
Home Bosses
Significant
Others

14. The secret of getting
ahead is getting started.
-Mark Twain

16. ®
Thank You!
Let’s Rock and Roll!