Rosenthal Business Consultants, Inc.

RBC

Presents

Rosenthal Management Seminars

Motivating For Results: "Bringing Out The Best In People"

Seminar No#: RBC6504
Length: Days 2

Inspire and energize yourself and your staff to heightened performance and productivity!

Why is it so difficult to motivate people right now? Perhaps it’s our changing environment--nothing is tougher than getting buy-in for new ideas, systems and fluctuating corporate philosophies. In addition, managers are now faced with working with employees from different generations with different backgrounds and values. This seminar focuses directly on what drives motivation. You’ll walk away from this program with an action plan for achieving measurable and observable positive results from your team.

Attendees:
Managers, Supervisors, Senior Managers, Project Managers, Team leaders and all employees.

How You Will Benefit:

• Rekindle employee enthusiasm and gain commitment for heightened performance
• Understand how insight into a variety of values helps instill motivation within a team
• Break through the communication barriers that exist among diverse groups of people and offer new incentives that motivate positive action
• Understand the kind of feedback that works in today’s environment to encourage higher levels of performance
• Learn how to create job enrichment instead of job loading

What You Will Cover:

• How to adapt your leadership style to meet the needs of your staff--your organization--your working environment
• What are the "universal motivators"...and how you can use them to enhance performance
• Discover the real cost of poor productivity
• Overcoming the three major motivational setbacks: low productivity, high turnover and absenteeism
• How to spur on creativity and innovation for heightened productivity in diverse work groups

Learning Objectives

• Stimulate Employee Enthusiasm and Gain Commitment
• Evaluate Your Own Degree of Motivation-an Important Starting Point for Inspiring Others
• Set Your Employees up for Success
• Communicate Directly and Openly
• Support, Rather Than Police
• Provide Feedback That Motivates
• Create an Atmosphere that Allows People to Flourish

WII FM (What’s In It For Me) - Motivating the New Workforce

• Compare Their Assumptions of What Employees Want with the Assumptions of Other Managers and the Responses of Surveyed Workers
• Describe What Motivates Two Types of Employees Entering the Workforce Today
• Identify at Least Three Incentives That Encourage Excellent Performance and Three That May Backfire

Why People Do What They Do: Theories of Motivation

• Describe and Compare Several Theories of Motivation, Including Those of Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, and McGregor
• Relate These Motivation Theories to the Behaviors of the New Generation of Workers
• Analyze the Positive and Negative Aspects of Money on Employee Motivation
• Through a Case Study, Apply Motivation Theory to Typical Work Problems

The Values That Drive Us

• Understand and Describe Their Own and Others' Value Systems
• Take Actions to Improve the Motivation of Employees with Different Value Systems
• Facilitate a Collaborative Approach to Resolving Value Conflicts
• Recognize How Changing Organizational Values Motivate or Frustrate Employees

The Cost of Poor Motivation: Too High a Price to Pay

• Take Effective Action to Counter Employee Absenteeism, Turnover, or Low Productivity
• Overcome Veteran Employees' Resistance to Change and Newcomers' Frustration with Routine Work
• Empower Employees to Perform Creatively
• Apply Delegation Do’s and Don’ts That Set Employees up for Success on Delegated Projects
• Determine What Assignments Enrich a Job and What Assignments Just Add to the Load

Changing Behavior

• Use Feedback to Inspire Poor Performers to Improve Their Job Behaviors
• Recognize Satisfactory Performance with Motivating Positive Feedback
• Determine What Information They Should Communicate to Employees to Generate Greater Worker Commitment
  

Setting, Pursuing, and Attaining Goals

• Write Performance Contracts with Their Employees That Spell Out Measurable, Observable Goals
• Monitor Their Employee's Progress toward Goals and Provide Motivating Feedback
• Celebrate Their Employees' Success in Ways That Inspire Still Greater Achievement

Action Planning

• Implement Three Top Priority Plans to Improve Employee Motivation
• Recognize What Motivates Them in Their Jobs
• Take Steps to Improve Their Own Work Motivation

Start and End times:  Two days - 9:00am-2:00 pm.  Your registration confirmation notice will confirm  your registration. The information included on this page is all the information available on this seminar.   

Note: Prices are subject to change without notice. To confirm the price of your session, select the session above and click “Send”. Discounts apply for groups of three or more people. Call for details.

If you are not paying via ACH transfer, Check, Money order, Cash, Credit or Debit Card, you will receive an invoice with payment instructions prior to event.

Cancellation Policy:
If you cannot attend a seminar you can contact RBC in advance to transfer to a future session, or you can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, RBC will give you a  refund, less 33% administrative cost if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply email info@rosenthalbc.com.  If you cancel with less than three weeks’ advance notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee.  Once your payment has been received, you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future RBC seminar of equal or lesser length.

The courtesy transfer must be used within six months of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed and do not contact RBC to cancel in advance, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

RBC grants courtesy transfers to people who cannot attend their scheduled sessions. You can use a courtesy transfer for any seminar of equal or lesser length than the original seminar. You must use your courtesy transfer within six months of the date of your originally scheduled seminar.

You can also register by emailing your registration information to us at seminarsevent@rosenthalbc.com or call us at 770.807.0056.

For additional information and schedules call RBC at 770.807.0056.