Employee Motivation and Performance Management
Course Description Overview
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
Software:
- Microsoft® Windows® 10
- Microsoft® Office 2016
- Any PDF reader
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