Empowered Leadership
EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP
ACT! Authority | Competence | Trust
Leadership is a relationship — a relationship between those who choose to lead and those who choose to follow. In her handbook and audio, Dr. Robin talks about some of the ways you can make that leader-follower relationship an empowering one.

Dr. Robin learned through research that empowerment, as defined in practice, includes three relational concepts — Authority | Competence | Trust.
- Authority is the right to make decisions appropriate for your work role.
- Competence is the skills you need to carry out your job tasks, as well as the ability to learn to do your work better.
- Trust includes fairness in a respectful relationship between you, your managers, your co-workers and your company.
Authority | Competence | Trust
You have to have all three in the work relationship for people to experience it as empowering.
The Leadership Trait Questionnaire included in the handbook, and packaged with the downloadable Mp3 files, helps you gain insight into your experience of authority, competence and trust at work.
Dr. Robin shares the practical results from robust research about decision-making biases to watch out for when you have authority; she explains the difference between achievement orientation and perfectionism when developing competencies; and she shares three different kinds of trust so you can decide who, when and how much to trust others in your work context. There’s also information about trust in the multicultural context that encourages thoughtful reflection and conversations. The combination of practical research-based suggestions within this interactive handbook makes it a helpful resource.
Empowered Leadership materials are available in the following formats.
You can find more information about each in the tabs below.

Book (Hard Copy)

Video

eBook

Questionnaire

Mp3
BOOK
Purchase Empowered Leadership in paperback on Amazon HERE.
Chapters
1 | LTQ Intro | 7 | SMARTER Goals |
2 | LTQ Questions | 8 | Scoring Trust |
3 | Scoring Authority | 9 | Betrayal-Violating VABEs |
4 | Decision Making Biases | 10 | Multicultural Trust Issues |
5 | Scoring Competence | 11 | Summary |
6 | Achievement vs. Perfectionism |
VIDEO

Perfectionism sucks! It sucks the life out of your team. It sucks out your joy and health. How can you shift from deadly perfectionism to effective achievement orientation? Dr. Robin gives you a counter-intuitive tip, the DONE LIST, to help you do just that in this short video.
eBOOK
Purchase the Empowered Leadership eBook.
Chapters
1 | LTQ Intro | 7 | SMARTER Goals |
2 | LTQ Questions | 8 | Scoring Trust |
3 | Scoring Authority | 9 | Betrayal-Violating VABEs |
4 | Decision Making Biases | 10 | Multicultural Trust Issues |
5 | Scoring Competence | 11 | Summary |
6 | Achievement vs. Perfectionism |
ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE
The Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) is also available to take free online HERE.
The online Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) covers three areas:
SECTION A:
Authority Quotient — your propensity to use your decision-making ability and seek position power.
SECTION C:
Competence Quotient — your propensity to seek out and complete tasks to high standards.
SECTION T:
Trust Quotient — your propensity to relate to others in ways that gain their confidence.
There are 33 questions in this survey. When you finish the survey, the results will be available to you immediately. Be sure to save and print your results. Dr. Robin is no longer doing research with this survey. She does not collect, nor save, any results.
AUDIO | Mp3 | COMPANION QUESTIONNAIRE
The audio version contains all the information in the Empowered Leadership handbook. Be sure to complete the Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) included in the zipped folder before listening to Track 3. The audio will also provide scoring instructions and interpretation.
Runtime — 59 minutes
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Purchase the audio format of Empowered Leadership (mp3 files; zipped folder).
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Folder includes a companion questionnaire in PDF format. |
Audio Tracks: | |||
1 | LTQ Preface | 8 | SMARTER Goals |
2 | LTQ Introduction | 9 | Scoring Trust |
3 | LTQ Questions | 10 | Betrayal-Violating VABEs |
4 | Scoring Authority | 11 | Multicultural Trust Issues |
5 | Decision Making Biases | 12 | Summary |
6 | Scoring Competence | 13 | Conclusion |
7 | Achievement vs. Perfectionism |