Managing employee participation
Featured in the Motivation in Practice training manual
By Eddie Davies
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
The training activity is based around research findings that have identified some of the common methods organisations are using to try to improve the motivation of their workforces. This training activity focuses on one of the ‘top-five’ team briefing meetings. You will help participants review the aims and content of a typical (effective) meeting and how these should be recorded. The participants will identify how the team leader should organise a meeting in order to ensure its success and the key responsibilities of the person chairing the meeting.
You begin this training activity with a general introduction looking at some of the more common ways in which organisations are trying to improve the motivation of their workforce. This training activity focuses on one of the ‘top-five’ – team briefing meetings. Following a brief discussion of the disadvantages of not running these briefing meetings openly and effectively, you help the participants review the aims and content of a typical (effective) meeting and how these should be recorded. The participants then work in two syndicate groups, after which they report back on how a team leader should organise to ensure a successful meeting and on the key roles and responsibilities of the team leader when chairing a meeting. After a review of this syndicate exercise, you ask for two volunteers to play team leaders in a practical exercise. While they are preparing to run a meeting, you introduce the rest of the group to the discussion-leading skills needed by team leaders. The exercise gets under way. After it, you lead a plenary review during which the two team leaders are encouraged to reflect on what they learned during the exercise. The remaining participants are also invited to offer feedback on what was effective and what was less so. You conclude this training activity with all the participants making personal action plans that will help them to transfer the key lesion they have learnt back to the workplace.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers enable participants to focus on the benefits, skills and strategies needed to deliver a team briefing meeting and facilitate a discussion around key issues.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:15:00 |
| No of Pages: | 20 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as a free-standing event or as an integral part of any training event that aims to improve participants’ abilities to increase the motivation and morale of their staff. It has been used successfully on training programmes such as an introduction to effective management, building and leading a team, leadership skills, managing meetings, motivation, and presentation skills.
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