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Online Courses: Motivating Teams
Online Courses: Motivating Teams
Online Courses
Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities (39 minutes)
A person's thoughts, feelings, and actions, taken together, form a pattern psychologists call "personality." As a leader, you deal with so many personalities daily. To be an effective leader, you need to know how to motivate, lead, and persuade these diverse personalities. In this course, instructor Kwame Christian—business lawyer, Director of the American Negotiation Institute, and host of the Negotiate Anything podcast—steps through how to gain the skills you need to lead and motivate anyone on your team. Kwame explains how understanding personality and motivation can help you lead and manage. He goes over ways you can successfully influence and lead individuals with recognized personality traits. Kwame goes in-depth on how you can motivate people with different personal motivations. He concludes with a discussion on how combining personality and motivation gives you the leverage to create new and better results with your team.
Be a Better Manager by Motivating Your Team (24 minutes)
While management is driven by goals and vision, managing is about people. Effective managers understand themselves and their team members. This understanding facilitates communication, motivation, and successful collaboration. In this course, leadership experts—like former NBA commissioner David Stern and bestselling author Daniel Pink—explain how to best motivate your team. Discover how to identify and work with different personality types and structure teams that balance autonomy with accountability. Learn how to recognize four common communication styles, micromanage selectively, increase low motivation, and develop mediocre employees into high performers. By the end, you’ll have the tools you need to graduate from a manager to a true leader who can develop your team’s talent and performance. This course includes videos from: David Stern, former NBA commissioner Linda A. Hill, professor at Harvard Business School Carson Tate, author and productivity consultant (Work Simply) Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author (Drive and A Whole New Mind) Lisa Bodell, CEO of FutureThink Note: This course was produced by Big Think. We are pleased to host this content in our library.
Inspirational Leadership Skills: Practical Motivational Leadership (3 hours, 2 minutes)
As a manager, you have the power to make or break your employees' experience at work. This course was designed to show you how to sharpen your leadership skills, define a vision for your team, and ultimately transcend from a manager to an inspirational leader. Instructor Chris Croft has spent 20+ years teaching leadership skills to professionals of all stripes. Here, he draws from his experiences as he shares over two dozen practical steps you can take to inspire and motivate your team. Get practical strategies for delegating and motivating, communication, dealing with difficult people, and planning the future of your business. Along the way, Chris shares examples from multiple industries that illustrate how these concepts function in the real world.
Book Recommendations: Motivating Teams
Book Recommendations: Motivating Teams
Books
Lead!: How to Build a High-Performing Team
Author: Dale Carnegie & Associates
Summary: Dale Carnegie’s unique and powerful approach to leadership training is based on wisdom and expertise gained from developing leaders longer than any other professional development organization. LEAD! is for new or experienced leaders alike who want to be more effective at motivating and inspiring their teams. This book is designed from the proven Dale Carnegie Leadership Success Model and Dale Carnegie’s Human Relationships Principles to help you understand tools and techniques to address common leadership challenges and shift your mindset and behavior to become a more positive and confident role model leader.
Rather than a textbook full of theory, LEAD! offers practical advice, strategies and real-life examples from top leaders around the globe that will guide you to being a more effective leader who inspires success from your team. At Dale Carnegie, we believe everyone has inherent greatness. This book will help you explore your unsuspected power and become a champion leader.
You Are The Team: 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go From Good To Great
Author: Michael G Rogers
Summary: Imagine a team with completely committed and selfless collaborative team members. Imagine a team who cared deeply and passionately about team results. Imagine a team where you (as a leader or a teammate) were free from the burden of dealing with team politics, drama, and distractions. Imagine a team where egos are checked at the door, and shared commitment to team excellence takes precedence. Is it possible? Yes! Drawing on decades of expertise, visionary leader and team expert Michael G. Rogers presents an unparalleled approach to team development that sets this book apart from any other in the leadership genre. With captivating stories, relatable examples, introspective activities, and actionable exercises, this book challenges your team’s mindset and equips them with the tools to elevate their personal performance and that of your entire team. You Are the Team – 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go from Good to Great is not a book just for you but for every member of your team. It is a meaningful, practical, actionable, and enduring gift to your team and possibly a gift to your entire organization.
HBR Guide to Motivating People (HBR Guide Series)
Author: Harvard Business Review
Summary: As a manager, it's your responsibility to ensure your team is motivated and performing at a high level. But recent data reveals abysmal engagement levels among workers around the globe. How do you fix the problem--before your most talented people walk out the door? By understanding what drains your employees, you can increase their job satisfaction and push them toward achieving their goals. The HBR Guide to Motivating People provides practical tips and advice to help your team find meaning in their work, build on their strengths, and produce the best results for the organization. You'll learn how to:
Pinpoint the root causes of lackluster performance
Tailor rewards and recognition to individuals
Connect routine work activities to a higher purpose
Support your employees' growth and development
Prevent burnout--especially in your top performers
Create a culture of engagement
Leading & Managing Teams Topics
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