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Course profile: 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 aims to help participants develop their insight into the factors that create effective leadership achieving a better motivated team in the interest of the worker, the organisation and ultimately service users.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course learners should understand:
  • What is a team?
  • What motivates people at work?
  • What makes a good motivator?
  • How do teams develop and what is required of a manager?
  • Frameworks for motivating teams
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    Course content:
  • Why do people work?
  • The psychological contract
  • What is motivation?
  • Values elicitation – positive and negative drivers
  • How do we know when people aren’t motivated?
  • Motivation theory and application to your setting
  • What is a team?
  • How effective is your team?
  • Roles in teams
  • Stages of team development
  • Situational Leadership: adapting your communication style to suit the circumstances
  • Developing and sharing: team culture/spirit and goals
  • The role of supervision and appraisals

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    Training methods:

    • Direct teaching         • Small group exercises                 • Discussion
    • Individual exercises   • Role Play                                   • Handouts

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