Motivating and empowering others within your organization is essential in successfully enacting your roles and responsibilities as an organizational leader. The role that employees play in performing the necessary work to achieve an organization’s mission and goals makes motivating and empowering employees a mission-critical role and responsibility of every organizational leader. The ability of leaders to successfully motivate and empower those employees that they directly and indirectly supervise distinguishes them as effective leaders, rather than merely successful managers.