A half-day workshop
This workshop packs in a host of important up-to-date thinking and evidenced practice and aims to help managers understand how to spot the signs of motivation (or lack of it) and how to build engagement at work.
Pre-work: Complete a self-assessment about your personal motivation challenges.
Learning Objectives
- Identify key motivating factors that affect people at work
- Learn some ideas and approaches for effective engagement
- Understand your role in people motivation and be able to spot the signs and levels of motivation in others
- Learn some models and tools
- Learn about current evidenced-based thinking that supports having the appropriate approach to motivation at work
Workshop information
Workshop outline
1. Welcome, aims and introductions
- Learning objectives
- Peer discussion of your self-assessment results
2. What is motivation made of and why is it important?
- Different types of motivation
- Identifying your personal motivators
- Precursors to motivation to remember as a manager
3. Spotting the signs and characteristics
- How to notice when people are motivated, or not, objectively
4. Tools, approaches and guidance
(choose two of these topics or have all of them delivered as a guidance and good practice overview with resources to take away and complete in your own time):
- True Motivators model and theory
- Skill / Will – mapping everyone’s motivation in your team to help tailor your management approach.
- DEAL – a model to help you hold an assertive discussion with structure based on an outcome
- Commitment v compliance engagement model (helps in supporting change and dealing with resistance and de-motivation)
- Motivation approaches – practice guide and ideas for action, including how to deal with common motivation issues
- How to write a manager’s motivation plan
5. Action planning
- Personal action planning
