The Project Management Institute breaks down their body of knowledge into Domains, Tasks, and Enablers. Domain is the high level knowledge area essential to the practice, Task is the underlying responsibilities of the project manager in that domain, and Enablers are illustrative examples of the work associated to the task. 

Empower Team Members and Stakeholders is the fourth task under the PMI’s first Domain, “People”. This to me reads “Influence and Emotional Intelligence.” By the way we organize our meetings, communications, notes, tasks, and plans we not only properly support them and set them up for success, but we influence our team towards accountability. Again, all the ability with none of the authority. It doesn’t require much to set the example. Applaud the good, investigate the opportunities for improvement, and align the team towards a common goal. 

People Domain

Task 4 -Empower team members and stakeholders

• Organize team around strengths
• Support team task accountability
• Evaluate demonstration of task accountability
• Determine and bestow level(s) of decision-making ability