Keeping up momentum and rewarding success
Featured in the Setting Objectives and Seeing Them Through training manual
By Beverley Williams
Category: Performance Management
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Most objectives are discussed and agreed with enthusiasm and a sense of purpose. The initial steps are taken with a feeling that priorities are clear and that direction is sharply focused. However, as time goes on it can be difficult to maintain that early level of enthusiasm, and other demands and priorities have to be considered. Keeping the momentum up when seeing objectives through is a crucial task, as many objectives fall by the wayside because of waning interest. Rewarding team members for their efforts and achievements is crucial element of keeping up momentum, providing the impetus to keep going though dry of difficult patches. This training activity uses brain-storming techniques and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to help participants decide on appropriate reward methods, both formal and informal, to keep up momentum and to ensure that the profile of objectives remains high.
You open the training activity by explaining that participants are going to spend some time looking at the importance of keeping up momentum when seeing through objectives and thinking about ways this can be done. You run a mini-brainstorm to illustrate the technique, and then run brainstorm sessions on rewards and on raising the profile of objectives where appropriate. Next, explain Malsow’s Hierarchy of Needs and ask participants to work in pairs to fit the ideas generated by the brainstorm into the various levels of the hierarchy, acknowledging that some will work on more than one level. Move on to explore how to decide the level people are operating on and therefore how best to reward them. Participants work on two example profiles to decide how best to keep up the momentum when objectives are in progress. They undertake the same work on members of their own teams, and then plan the specific action they will take as a result of this work. Finally, you close the training activity by inviting participants to share one or two of their action points from this session.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to look at the importance of making specific efforts to raise the profile of work in progress, and to give reward and recognition of what has been achieved so far.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 10 |
| Typical Duration: | 03:45:00 |
| No of Pages: | 34 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Red pens and /or highlighter pens, access to a photocopier (if possible)
Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with participants who are responsible for helping others to set objectives – that is, manage others in some capacity. Participants should already have covered ‘Objectives: What they are and why they exist’ and ‘Introducing the SMART objective’.
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