Motivating your Team (1-3 days)

Team effectiveness is not only dependent on the individual motivation within it but on how it functions as a whole. Skilled leadership can harness individual strengths in a way that creates a cooperative environment in which weaknesses and dysfunction diminish.
This course, designed for Managers aims to help participants develop their insight into the factors that create effective leadership, achieving a better motivated team in the interest of the workers, the organisation and ultimately service users.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course learners should understand:

• Beyond earning money, why people work:
        -Self esteem
        -Influence
        -Interest
        -Stimulation
        -Meeting the need to be creative
        -Social needs
        -Time structuring etc
• What is meant by ‘Motivation’
• The main Motivators
• The need for the Manager to be aware of the personal motivation of workers
• The need to design projects and delegate taking account of personal motivators
• If a team can have a common motivator or is this a fraudulent concept?
• How perceived group motivation can form the basis of a ‘culture’
• What happens to those who do not share the common motive and how might the difference ‘act out’
• What is meant by the ‘Psychological Contract’
• What is meant by ‘Values elicitation’ – positive and negative drivers
• How we know when people aren’t motivated-indicators
• Different Motivation theories:
        -Pain and Pleasure principle
        -Maslow
        -A Behavioural model and ethical considerations
        -A Person Centred approach
        -A Transactional Analysis model
• How to apply motivational theory into management practice
• What makes a group of people a team
• How to assess the effectiveness of the team
• What would indicate a dysfunctional team
• Why teams become dysfunctional
• The roles that people play in teams
• The stages of team development
• Leadership styles and their influence on Motivation
• Situational Leadership: adapting your communication style to suit the circumstances
• Developing and sharing: team culture/spirit and goals
• The role of Supervision and Appraisals

Training methods:

• Tutor presentations
• OHP/PowerPoint
• Chalk & talk
• Word shower method
• Small group exercises
• Discussion
• Individual exercises
• Role Play
• Handouts

CP61/4.9