Team motivation: Motivating your team
Featured in the The Essentials of Management training manual
By Eddie Davies
Category: Management
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity enables participants to enhance their teams motivation thereby getting their teams to work more effectively.
You start the training activity by asking the participants why they work, establishing that money is one of the main reasons. You then go on to explore why money should not become the main focus of a manager’s endeavours for improving team motivation. You review the cycle of motivation and introduce the participants to the views of leading motivational theorists. Their motivation theories are integrated into a questionnaire designed to identify the order of priority of a number of common motivators at work. The participants complete the questionnaire and, working in small groups, use the top three items to explore how they can increase their effectiveness in team motivation. They finally establish an individual action plan which they can use for team motivation or motivation of themselves. You conclude the training activity by facilitating a learning review during which the participants identify the key team motivation points from the session and how they will apply them back at work.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to improve their teams motivation and getting their team to work more effectively.
- Themes:
- Assertiveness skills,
- Building and leading a team,
- Career planning and development,
- Coaching skills,
- Disciplinary interviews,
- Introduction to management,
- Managing change,
- Middle management skills,
- Motivation,
- Project management,
- Self-development,
- Stress management,
- Team leadership,
- Time management,
- Women into management,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 19 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: A calculator, A computer with spreadsheet package, Selection of banknotes from various countries.
Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers for all training events that are designed to improve management skills. The training activity may be easily adapted for wider use on any team or leader development programme, or management development and self-development courses. Whilst the focus is primarily on team motivation, it also focuses on motivation theories, what motivates the participant and as such will also be applicable to those without staff. This training activity can be used as a stand alone resource to impove self and team motivation.
Download the training activity, Team motivation: Motivating your team as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Essentials of Management