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How to Motivate Your Staff

To assist managers with the knowledge to build and motivate a team through motivational theory, generational and group dynamic knowledge and solid feedback techniques.

About the course

A motivated staff member is more likely to stay and in times of skills shortage, staff retention becomes imperative.

What it covers

What is motivation and what does it take

Understanding the psychology of motivation. What it takes to be motivated and how it influences our actions and behaviours

Understanding yourself and others

Understanding our basic motivations as a species based on the 9 Enneagram types. This Framework speaks to the basis of our thinking

Understanding team dynamics

How team dynamics influence motivation and action

Understanding motivational theories

Briefly looking at the Hertzberg and Maslow theories and placing them in context in South Africa

Understanding generational theory

What is that the Millenials want? How are we able to gain and retain input from this controversial generation

Understanding feedback, the technique, the timing, the necessity

Working with feedback as a motivator and not a whip

Motivational Action Plans in line with Operating Procedures

Putting motivational action plans in place to ensure the smooth running of operational procedures

Unit standard alignment
Unit standardNQFCreditsTitle
242819 410Motivate and Build a Team
25203756Build teams to achieve goals and objectives

A credit-bearing SETA version is available on request.

Run it for your team

We can adapt How to Motivate Your Staff to your industry and your people’s real situations, and run it at your premises, at our venue or as a virtual workshop. We agree the outline with you before you order, and the rate per delegate drops as the group grows.