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Empowerment is intentional, life-changing, and essential to your team's success!

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Morning Minute 9.22.25​
​“T.A.S.T.E. Leadership Model: Lesson #5 – EMPOWERMENT!”

How do you picture a great leader?

Three questions reveal whether they empower others to be more, do more, and achieve more:

1. Are they invested in the success of both the team and each team member?

2. How does the team perform when the leader is absent?

3. Whom has the leader mentored who now leads their own successful teams?

Invested in Team Member Success:​
A team can’t succeed unless its members grow in skill and knowledge. Great leaders recognize each member’s strengths, weaknesses, and abilities. They place people in roles that fit them best, expect excellence and continuous improvement, and cross-train to strengthen teamwork. In doing so, they invest in both individual growth and team success.

When the Leader is Absent:​
An empowered team maintains momentum and productivity even in the leader’s absence. They hold themselves and each other accountable—because they’re invested in the team’s shared success.

Mentoring Other Leaders:​
Legendary football coach Nick Saban is a prime example of this. He empowered assistants who went on to become head coaches—Kirby Smart, Lane Kiffin, Dan Lanning, Billy Napier, Steve Sarkisian, Mario Cristobal, Will Muschamp, Mark Dantonio, and Jimbo Fisher—all building their skills to lead teams of their own.

Final Thought:​
Henry Ford once shared: “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave, is not training them and having them stay.” Empowered team members are vital for lasting success by growing your bench of future leaders.

Recapping the T.A.S.T.E. Leadership Model:

1. Truth grounds us.

2. Accountability aligns us.

3. Support strengthens us.

4. Trust connects us.

5. Empowerment transforms us.

Together, these five traits equip leaders to inspire teams, achieve results, and leave a lasting impact.

In future challenge training we will go into greater detail on each trait.

That is today’s Morning Minute.

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​"Lesson #1: TRUTH; The T.A.S.T.E. Leadership Module." TRUTH is the first, and most important, component of successful leadership! Discover how that your paradigms, the filter through which your brain processes information, affects your view of people, events, and results. Learn from the example we used as a description of paradigm. Compare the many ways that being truthful affects you, your team, and you success.

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May God bless you, your family, and your team!

And, may God continue to bless the USA with patriots who still believe, support, and defend our people and our Constitution!

Larry. A. Bonorato

lab@larryonlearning.com 864-630-2625

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