Employee Motivation and Performance Management
Motivation has a profound effect on employees' productivity and performance. An organization improves its likelihood of success by maintaining a motivated work force. As a leader within your organization, you share in the responsibility of motivating your employees.
You also want to be able to lead the individuals on your team effectively by conducting ongoing performance appraisals; delivering helpful and instructive feedback, training, and coaching; and designing and implementing performance standards. You want to develop talent within your team by employing effective performance-management strategies on the job. This course will help you cultivate the skills necessary to motivate your employees and give you essential performance-management skills.
In this course, you will identify strategies for motivating employees and developing them through the application of basic performance-management techniques.
You will:
- Commit to employee motivation.
- Motivate employees.
- Develop self-motivated employees.
- Establish a foundation for performance management.
- Optimize employee performance using performance-management strategies.
- Create employee performance and development plans.
To ensure your success, we recommend that you have some level of work experience in any of a variety of organizational settings. You should also have general end-user computer and Internet skills. To meet this prerequisite, you can take the following United States Career Campus course:
- Using Microsoft® Windows® 10
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- CD-ROM drive (if installing any software from a CD-ROM)
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- 1024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Committing to
Employee Motivation
Topic A: Recognize
the Importance of Motivation
Topic B: Assess
Employee Motivation Levels
Lesson 2: Motivating
Employees
Topic A: Communicate
Effectively
Topic B: Clarify
Expectations
Topic C: Establish
Meaningful Professional Goals
Topic D: Provide
Effective Feedback
Topic E: Choose
Rewards or Recognition
Lesson 3: Developing
Self-Motivation in Employees
Topic A: Encourage
Self-Motivation
Topic B: Create
a Sense of Employee Ownership
Topic C: Provide
Development Opportunities through Mentoring
Topic D: Build a
Sense of Accomplishment
Topic E: Encourage
Enthusiasm
Lesson 4: Establishing a
Foundation for Performance Management
Topic A: Identify
Performance Management Elements
Topic B: Elicit
Engagement
Topic C: Onboard
New Employees
Topic D: Develop
Talent
Lesson 5: Optimizing
Employee Performance
Topic A: Assess
Available Talent Via Interviews
Topic B: Determine
Individual Performance Goals
Topic C: Discuss
Performance Appraisals
Lesson 6: Creating
Performance and Development Plans
Topic A: Initiate
a Performance Plan
Topic B: Create
an Improvement Plan for Performance Problems
Topic C: Create a Development Plan for Career Growth