1 Day • Leaders Focus Module

Motivating Teams

This training is perfect for leaders who want to go beyond a “gut-feeling-based” approach to motivation – towards a systematic and scientifically founded understanding of motivation.

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Motivating others is a key challenge for any leader. We will spend one day looking at the building blocks of motivation. By using the most up-to-date, and empirically-tested practical models, we will develop a clear understanding of how motivation can make or break us and what you as a leader can do about it.

Reflect

Know what adds to and harms your own motivation

Learn

Understand how motivation affects performance and what you as a leader can and cannot influence

Apply

Become able to purposefully create a motivating culture in your area of influence

Training Topics

What actually drives motivation?

Understand why happiness and motivation aren’t the same thing — and why a content team isn’t automatically a motivated one
Get to know the needs of your team ad their role in keeping people engaged rather than threatened

How the job itself shapes motivation

See how five features of a role make work engaging or draining – so you can c
Learn to diagnose your team’s roles against these levers and spot concrete, doable changes to the demotivating parts

Effort, reward and the question of money

Map the chain from effort to performance to reward, find the weak links that quietly sap motivation, and learn how to strengthen them
Move past “does money motivate?” to the more useful question: what effect does money have, in which circumstances — and when does it start to do damage?

Putting it into practice

Setting goals with an eye on motivation and not just deliverables
Shaping roles and positions so that they are inherently motivating
Looking at bonuses, feedback conversations and performance management systems and how they influence motivation

Our Method

Our Motivation Training enables a sustainable learning experience through these training and coaching elements:

One training day
Models and theories based on literature, experience, neuroscience and practicability
Take-home exercises for you and your team
Reflection and discussion
Simulations and case studies
Workbook & documentation
Exchange in a small, trusting group