Leadership Development Online Training Course: Motivation

Price: $179.00

Online Training Course ID: 46005

Training Course Description / Outline

In Leadership Development Training: Motivation, you will develop the skills needed to enhance employee and team motivation. Throughout the simulations in this training program, you will be provided with the opportunity to overcome motivation problems and encourage employees who are facing various obstacles.

Learn To

• Identify the factors that can lead to low motivation.
• Understand the difference between personal and social needs.
• Choose the best motivator for a given circumstance.
• Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
• Increase motivation within a team.

Training Audience

The target audience for this training program is managers who want to improve their ability to motivate employees.

Total Training Time

2 to 4 hours

Training Objectives

Unit 1: Background Information (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Understand the importance of motivation.
• Identify the factors that can lead to low motivation.
• Recognize how increased motivation benefits employees and organizations.
• Demonstrate actions and attitudes that enhance employee motivation.
• Simulation Overview:
• Each of the simulations allows you to practice the skills learned in the instructional content. You will enter realistic scenarios in which you will interact with a variety of individuals. By using the knowledge you have gained, you control the outcome of each simulation.

Unit 2: Motivating an Underachieving Employee (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Understand why individual motives vary.
• Differentiate between personal and social needs.
• Identify the major types of motivators.
• Choose the best motivator for a given circumstance.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, your Customer Service Manager has received feedback from sales representatives and several customers. They are regarding the attitude of an employee in the Technical Support Department.

Unit 3: Motivating an Overachieving Employee (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Identify the three major methods of redesigning a job.
• Use job rotation, job enlargement, and job enrichment as motivators.
• Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
• Identify the characteristics of good rewards.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, an employee has requested a meeting to discuss her work environment and perceived lack of opportunities. Her supervisor is a very aggressive man who has been very vocal about his opposition to distributed computing and networks.

Unit 4: Motivating a Group (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Encourage your employees to participate in team efforts.
• Identify the personal and organizational factors that are important to team success.
• Increase motivation within a team.
• Address negative employee characteristics.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you have missed your last ship date. You believe that the employee morale is low and the chances are high that the next deadline will be also be missed. You have assembled a team of the three people whose departments are most involved in the problem.

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