Inspiring and Motivating Individuals
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Inspiring and Motivating Individuals
This course is part of Leading People and Teams Specialization
Instructor: Maxim Sytch, Ph.D.
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What you'll learn
Learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates.
Set effective goals and expectations. Understand the most important needs and drivers of performance across cultures.
Skills you'll gain
- Performance Appraisal
- Motivational Skills
- Team Performance Management
- Verbal Communication Skills
- Intercultural Competence
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Constructive Feedback
- Visionary
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Cultural Responsiveness
- People Development
- Employee Engagement
- Goal Setting
- Influencing
- Employee Performance Management
- Smart Goals
- Drive Engagement
- Leadership Development
- Communication
- Team Motivation
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There are 5 modules in this course
In this course, you will learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates. You will also learn how to set effective goals and expectations in a way that best enables your team to attain the shared vision. Finally, you will understand the most important needs and drivers of performance across cultures, and will learn to align rewards with desired behaviors so that your teammates are motivated to attain the team’s objectives.
Motivation represents a crucial challenge for contemporary organizations: A recent Gallup poll revealed that only 13% of workers worldwide exhibit high levels of engagement and motivation. We will show you why these motivation problems are not simply due to a “bad” or “unmotivated” team member. Rather, motivation is very much driven by what work conditions we create for our teammates, how we structure goals and objectives, and how we reward people for the accomplishment of those goals. This course will help you diagnose and solve motivation problems so that you can bring out the best in your people.
Every team needs a vision consisting of a shared purpose, core values and stretch goals. As a team leader, it is your responsibility to to create and communicate this vision. In this module, you will be introduced to the concept of "visionary leadership" and begin to think about how to create a vision of your own and communicate it to others.
What's included
12 videos7 readings2 discussion prompts
12 videos•Total 49 minutes
- Welcome•2 minutes
- Reactions to Steve Jobs' Vision for Apple•2 minutes
- The Business Case for Visionary Leadership•8 minutes
- How a Clear Vision Creates Energy•2 minutes
- Vision in Words and Actions•3 minutes
- Why Do We Do What We Do?•6 minutes
- Menlo: Starting with WHY•2 minutes
- What Does Success Look Like?•8 minutes
- How Must We Act to Ensure Success? Part 1•7 minutes
- How Must We Act to Ensure Success? Part 2•7 minutes
- Does Jobs Answer the Three Questions? Part 1•1 minute
- Does Jobs Answer the Three Questions? Part 2•1 minute
7 readings•Total 36 minutes
- Steve Jobs: Get Much Simpler, Be Really Clear•2 minutes
- Introduction to Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations•2 minutes
- Meet Your Instructors•5 minutes
- Course Syllabus•5 minutes
- Help us learn more about you!•10 minutes
- Previewing the Three Questions for Visionary Leadership•5 minutes
- Watch: Part 2 of the Steve Jobs Video•7 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
- Your Reaction to Steve Jobs' Vision for Apple•10 minutes
- Reflecting on Steve Jobs' Conversation•10 minutes
In this module, you will continue your thinking around how to communicate your developing leadership vision. You will different things to take into account when communicating your vision, including both verbal and non-verbal considerations.
What's included
10 videos4 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt
10 videos•Total 55 minutes
- Visionary Language•7 minutes
- Watch: Dead Poets Society Clip•8 minutes
- Visionary Language - Dead Poets Society•4 minutes
- Visionary Language - MLK Speech•3 minutes
- Developing a Vision for Your Team•2 minutes
- Verbals and Non-Verbals, Part 1•8 minutes
- Verbal and Non-Verbals, Part 2•9 minutes
- Menlo: How to Design your Office to Reinforce your Vision•2 minutes
- Learn to be Charismatic•8 minutes
- Recap: Becoming a Visionary Leader•5 minutes
4 readings•Total 35 minutes
- Previewing Ways to Communicate a Vision•10 minutes
- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream..." Speech•10 minutes
- Leveraging Nonverbal Factors: Steve Ballmer Examples•3 minutes
- Michigan Model of Leadership•12 minutes
3 assignments•Total 75 minutes
- Strategies for Visionary Leadership •30 minutes
- Draft a Vision for Your Team•30 minutes
- Review of Key Concepts•15 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Analyzing Charlie Chaplin•10 minutes
As a leader, one of your most important roles is to set clear goals and expectations. In this module, you will learn what makes for an effective goal, how to make goals meaningful and motivating, and the risks of setting goals that are too challenging or too specific.
What's included
11 videos7 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
11 videos•Total 52 minutes
- Goals and Performance•6 minutes
- The Risks of Stretch Goals•9 minutes
- SMART Goals•5 minutes
- Limitations of SMART Goals, Part 1•7 minutes
- Limitations of SMART Goals, Part 2•5 minutes
- Making Goals Meaningful•7 minutes
- Menlo: Setting SMART and Meaningful Goals•3 minutes
- Autonomy and Skill Variety, Part 1•1 minute
- Autonomy and Skill Variety, Part 2•0 minutes
- Autonomy and Skill Variety, Part 3•4 minutes
- Recap: Setting Effective Goals•5 minutes
7 readings•Total 44 minutes
- Understanding Goals•0 minutes
- Previewing SMART Goals•2 minutes
- Basketball Video•5 minutes
- How Customers Can Rally Your Troops•12 minutes
- Watch: I Love Lucy Video•5 minutes
- Watch: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Video•10 minutes
- Preview of SMART Goals Conclusion•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Setting Effective Goals •30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Setting SMART Goals•120 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
- Draft a SMART Goal•15 minutes
To lead people, you must understand what motivates people to take action and contribute to the team. In this module, you will learn the fundamental needs that drive human behavior, and learn how to leverage these needs to enhance motivation in your team.
What's included
17 videos4 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts
17 videos•Total 98 minutes
- Assessment: Drivers of Performance•4 minutes
- Drivers of Performance and Motivation•6 minutes
- The Business Case for Employee Management•5 minutes
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs•5 minutes
- The Herman Miller Case•3 minutes
- Are Needs Universal Around the World?•5 minutes
- Do Values Differ Between Generations?•5 minutes
- Menlo: Understanding People's Needs to Drive Motivation•1 minute
- Drivers of Satisfaction vs. Dissatisfaction•6 minutes
- Menlo: How to Diagnose if Someone is Satisfied or Dissatisfied at Work•4 minutes
- Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivators, Part 1•8 minutes
- Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivators, Part 2•9 minutes
- How to Create Meaning at Work•14 minutes
- Exercise: Backward Mapping Values and Needs from Behavior•4 minutes
- Major Motivation Traps: 1 & 2•9 minutes
- Major Motivation Traps: 3 & 4•5 minutes
- Recap: Drivers of Performance•6 minutes
4 readings•Total 19 minutes
- Previewing the Drivers of Performance at Work•2 minutes
- Previewing Needs and Motivation Theories at Work•2 minutes
- Previewing the Backward Mapping Exercise•10 minutes
- 4 Major Motivation Traps•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Motivation and Drivers of Performance•30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- How Motivated is Your Team?•15 minutes
- Navigating Cultural and Generational Differences in Motivation at Work•15 minutes
One of the most common problems in organizations is that rewards are not aligned with desired behavior. Another common problem is ineffective feedback on performance. In this module, you will learn how to align rewards with behavior and deliver effective feedback to drive performance in your team.
What's included
15 videos8 readings2 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
15 videos•Total 72 minutes
- Equity, Part 1•2 minutes
- Equity, Part 2•10 minutes
- The Folly of Rewarding A while Hoping for B•8 minutes
- Types of Reinforcement•15 minutes
- Menlo: Managing by Fear•3 minutes
- Schedules of Reinforcement, Part 1•2 minutes
- Schedules of Reinforcement, Part 2•7 minutes
- Functions of a Performance Appraisal, Part 1•2 minutes
- Functions of a Performance Appraisal, Part 2•3 minutes
- Challenges of a Performance Appraisal•9 minutes
- Providing Critical Performance Feedback•2 minutes
- Menlo: Giving Critical Performance Feedback•3 minutes
- Seeking Performance Feedback•2 minutes
- Menlo: Seeking Feedback and Performance Appraisals•3 minutes
- Recap: Aligning Rewards with Behaviors•3 minutes
8 readings•Total 39 minutes
- Previewing Using Rewards and Feedback to Drive Behavior•5 minutes
- Watch: Capuchin Monkeys Video•3 minutes
- Example: Paying to Extinction•4 minutes
- Example: Awkward Performance Review•3 minutes
- Ditch Performance Reviews?•10 minutes
- Accenture CEO on Why He's Ending Annual Performance Reviews•2 minutes
- Post-Course Survey•10 minutes
- Keep Learning with Michigan Online•2 minutes
2 assignments•Total 45 minutes
- Aligning Rewards and Behaviors•30 minutes
- Review of Key Concepts•15 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Seeking Feedback on Your Leadership•120 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Addressing a Folly A/B Issue in Your Team•10 minutes
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Reviewed on Jun 20, 2017
Great course, but perhaps forewarn students of the feedback assignment in week 4 a little bit earlier - it took me nearly a month to get feedback from people on my team because we are pretty busy.
Reviewed on Jan 19, 2016
Fantastic material, very good teaching, they use conclusions from research and apply it in a very practical way, applicable in day to day situations. A real added value for my professional life.
Reviewed on Aug 8, 2018
A very useful course. Mr. Scott and Mr. Maxim were great instructors. The lessons were easy to understand and I have learned a lot. Would definitely recommend this course and specialization.
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