Everyone wants to be empowered at work. Everyone's boss wants to say that their teams are empowered. But when you really think about it, how do you measure empowerment?

Ahead of the forthcoming book, Visualizing Empowerment by Skylar Watson, get a hands-on experience with the techniques described in the book for how you can Visualize Empowerment in your team, or within teams you work with, from someone who was "there when it all began!" Skylar and I co-created the techniques he describes in the book while coaching multiple software teams in Dearborn, MI.

Mike Vitale, an Agile coach with 25+ years experience in software development and coaching, will discuss why empowerment is important, as well as the benefits both employees and the company receive when teams are more empowered. He will also demonstrate a simple, practical method to measure employee empowerment in the work environment. By the end of this session, you will have the tools you need to go back to your office and take your team through an exercise to examine your own workplace, and engage in conversations with both employees and management around improving the empowerment quotient in your work environment.