Course Description

This course will help you understand motivation and enable you to consider how to improve performance within your team. You will learn key theories and understand how to apply them within your own practice.

You will study the following topics:

What is motivation

Theories of motivation - Herzberg

The use of SMART and job design in motivation

What is the psychological contract and why is it so important

The importance of staff engagement to improve productivity

Attitudes and values and their affect on motivation levels

Monitoring team performance and giving feedback

Throughout all the above you will be tasked to complete numerous activities, that will allow you to reflect and assess your own motivational ability.

Course curriculum

    1. Video 1: An introduction to the unit - understand how to motivate to improve performance

    2. An introduction to the unit - understand how to motivate to improve performance slides

    1. Video 4 - SMART and Job Design

    2. SMART and Job Design slides

    3. What can you do?

    4. SMART Template

    1. Video 5 - The psychological contract and employee engagement Part A

    2. The psychological contract and employee engagement Part A slides

    3. Iceberg diagram

    4. Video 5 - The psychological contract and employee engagement Part B

    5. The psychological contract and employee engagement Part B slides

    6. Motivation activity

    1. Video 6 - Attitudes and values

    2. Attitudes and values slides

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  • 1.5 hours of video content
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Tutor Lynsey Heeks

I have 15 years’ experience of managing and leading within a highly commercial environment, combined with 15 years’ experience of teaching Leadership, Management, Coaching/Mentoring and HR. This ensures that I can relate your learning to real life experience and help you put your learning in to context. My philosophy within any of my courses is that we all know the right thing to do, we just don’t always know we know! It is my job to facilitate your learning and guide you through this process so that you can take your knowledge and have the confidence to be better leaders and managers within your own workplaces.