As a manager, one of your responsibilities is to establish and maintain a high-functioning, high-performing team. To accomplish this, you'll need to understand the significant impact of motivation on your employees’ work performance and make an effort to energize them. In this lesson, you will commit to motivate your employees.

You now understand the importance of employee motivation and you've acquired methods for assessing your employees' motivation levels. Now it's time to adopt strategies that can dramatically increase your ability to motivate your employees. In this lesson, you will motivate employees.

You've used a variety of skills and tools to motivate your employees. Next, you will want to help employees motivate themselves to higher performance and commitment. In this lesson, you will develop self-motivation in employees.

You've built an array of strategies to motivate your employees to deliver higher performance. Now you want to implement performance management strategies to take employees' performance to the next level. In this lesson, you will establish a foundation for performance management.

You've established a solid foundation for performance management by eliciting engagement, integrating new employees into your team and company, and developing talent. Now it's time to identify methods and strategies that will help you make the most effective use of your employees' talents. In this lesson, you will optimize employee performance.

You've optimized employee performance by using interviews to assess talent, establishing employee performance goals, and discussing performance appraisals. Now it's time to build strategies to help employees grow and improve their performance. In this lesson, you will create performance and development plans.

You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.