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“Personal Empowerment”
Achieving Individual and Departmental Excellence
By
Bennie L. Crane & Dr. Julian L. Williams
This book was written to demonstrate to supervisors and managers that Personal Empowerment can be used to create No fault Resolutions to Diversity Issues. They do not have sacrifice important relationships in order to carry out the responsibilities of their positions. This is the challenge facing many leaders and those that would be leaders. In this book I face these challenges directly with proven solutions.
"I am having a really difficult time supervising the members of my company because they are my friends and fishing buddies. I tend to overlook their faults and would rather do their work for them than to get into a hassle with them".


On page 55 the reader is given proven concepts and methods for creating win/win solutions for these kinds of issues.

Another concern of many organizations has to do with Affirmative Action and managing cultural diversity. 

In this area I provide direction to no-fault resolution to these concerns and clear descriptions of proven methods of managing them.

Affirmative Action makes me uncomfortable as an officer of a growing department.

Read my response on page 50.

"What are acceptable or unacceptable accommodations to cultural diversity?"

On page 51, I begin my response with “In order to understand diversity we need go no farther than our own families.”

"Some members of my command are bitter after being passed over for promotion because of our department’s affirmative action program. How do I handle that problem?"


On page 53 give a detailed account of how I addressed a similar incident.

"How do I recognize a bias in myself?"

On page 54, I state that I don’t know of anyone that does not have a bias.  I go on to provide information on to avoid getting into trouble because of them.

"Personal Empowerment"

Achieving Individual & Departmental Excellence

                           

Written ByBennie L. Crane & Julian L. WilliamsDiversity issues in the workplace can reduce productivity for the team and create challenges for managers. In this ground-breaking work Bennie L. Crane and Dr. Julian L. Williams explain in a straight forward and common sense manner how to strengthen organizations by empowering individuals. Crane uses his years as a Chicago Fire Chief and facilitator for examples in a method that is applicable to teams and organizations in any work environments.
This book is a frank discussion on the leadership and interpersonal relationship problems with in  fire departments, but can be used by anyone working to unify a group.  Real life situations are presented in order to provide the readers with some proven methods to resolve leadership, motivational, racial, and gender diversity problems.  The techniques presented will serve the organization's goals as well as the needs of the individual members.  The idea is that when both the organization's goals and the individual needs are meet, productivity is increased.Readers Will Learn To
  • Recognize the importance of effective human relations in achieving  the organization's goals
  • Be able to identify the elements of effective leadership
  • Have an understanding of the human endowments and the important role these endowments play in achieving successful results
  • Learn no-fault solutions to diversity issues
  • Construct personal and organizational mission statements that will serve as a basis for proactively meeting both personal and professional objectives
  • Discover that if the organization does not empower it's members then it is entrapping them

About The Authors Bennie L. Crane is a field instructor with the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute and the Northwestern University Center for Public Service. A popular speaker and facilitator, Crane began his fire service career with the Chicago Fire Department in 1961 and retired as a district chief in 1995.Dr. Julian Williams is an instructor at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. He has a Ph.D. and Ed.M. from Columbia University, as well as a M.A. from Clark Atlanta University and a B.A. from Morehouse College. In addition to teaching, Williams has served as a facilitator and consultant.

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