Motivation : the keys!

Goals

• Understand the mechanisms and sources of motivation
• As a manager, evaluate your room for manoeuvre
• Identify the motivational levers of your collaborators
• Set up an action plan to boost your team’s motivation

Target audience

Managers, team leaders wanting to provide efficient and constructive feedback to value and develop their collaborators

Prerequisite

Work in a management position.

Contents

Better understanding motivation

• Define motivation
• The motivation-performance link, the issues of motivation and the effects of demotivation
• A quick overview of the different theories on motivation
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

Identify the room for manoeuvre and create favourable conditions to motivate your collaborators

• Identify the parts on which the manager can act to motivate his/her team
• Get to know your collaborators well; take into account their individual needs and find the corresponding motivational levers
• Articulate individual and collective motivation
• Identify your own motivational profile

Managerial paths and corresponding tools

• Inform yourself: what are the different paths a manager can take to act directly and to motivate his/her collaborators
  • Meaning of and in work: set up benchmarks linked to values
  • A guideline: setting up motivational objectives
  • Personalised management and communication: practice situational leadership
  • To be able to express yourself, being listened to and understood: use efficient communication
  • The sense of being useful: value the job
  • Follow up: add constructive feedback
  • Create a stimulating atmosphere: day by day, at special events, successes, pitfalls…
  • Confidence: knowing to entertain
  • Being empowered: delegate
• Act concretely
  • In function of the interests and needs of the participating group, 4 to 5 tools will be put in place: SMART goals, situational leadership matrix, active listening, the positive stroke, reframing interview to stimulate growth, delegation and follow up…