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Motivating Your Team

Do you take a genuine interest in others and want to motivate them to be the best they can be? Are there tasks you could be delegating to give others growth opportunities? Discover the latest thinking on what motivates people and how motivation is about more than giving people a pat on the back.
  • Identify common motivators and demotivators in the workplace
  • Generate practical actions to be taken to increase motivation
  • Focus on setting goals and giving feedback
  • Training options for individual learners, groups/teams & organisation-wide

Course Code: OV-MYT

half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)

This programme is available for individuals, groups and teams

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This workshop is designed to give you the knowledge and understanding you need to maximise the discretionary effort of your team members, leading to high performance and high engagement.
You will use some key learning points from modern motivation theory to establish practical strategies to motivate your team for optimum performance; starting with identifying common motivators and demotivators, and understanding what really drives each individual. You will then focus on two essential management practices - setting goals and giving feedback - and will learn the right way to execute both in order to maximise individual motivation to strive and improve.

This session is suitable for any manager or leader who would like to increase employee motivation within their own team.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Define motivation at work and explain key theoretical concepts
  • Identify common motivators and demotivators in the workplace
  • Pinpoint the motivators of individual team members
  • Use goal-setting as a motivator and formulate meaningful goals
  • Deliver motivational and solution-orientated feedback
  • Generate practical actions to be taken to increase motivation
  • Defining what motivation is and where it comes from
  • Understanding and recognising common motivators and demotivators in the workplace
  • Exploring some modern theories about motivation - Glasser‘s Choice Theory, Sirota‘s Three-Factor Theory
  • Applying key points from the theories to workplace scenarios
  • Exploring the concept of praise and how it can motivate or demotivate
  • Using feedback and goal setting to maximise motivation
  • Discover your management style and identify the potential impact on motivation
  • Motivational techniques to increase leadership effectiveness
Course overview

This workshop is designed to give you the knowledge and understanding you need to maximise the discretionary effort of your team members, leading to high performance and high engagement.
You will use some key learning points from modern motivation theory to establish practical strategies to motivate your team for optimum performance; starting with identifying common motivators and demotivators, and understanding what really drives each individual. You will then focus on two essential management practices - setting goals and giving feedback - and will learn the right way to execute both in order to maximise individual motivation to strive and improve.

Is it right for me?

This session is suitable for any manager or leader who would like to increase employee motivation within their own team.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Define motivation at work and explain key theoretical concepts
  • Identify common motivators and demotivators in the workplace
  • Pinpoint the motivators of individual team members
  • Use goal-setting as a motivator and formulate meaningful goals
  • Deliver motivational and solution-orientated feedback
  • Generate practical actions to be taken to increase motivation
What will it cover?
  • Defining what motivation is and where it comes from
  • Understanding and recognising common motivators and demotivators in the workplace
  • Exploring some modern theories about motivation - Glasser‘s Choice Theory, Sirota‘s Three-Factor Theory
  • Applying key points from the theories to workplace scenarios
  • Exploring the concept of praise and how it can motivate or demotivate
  • Using feedback and goal setting to maximise motivation
  • Discover your management style and identify the potential impact on motivation
  • Motivational techniques to increase leadership effectiveness
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