At the heart of effective team building is motivation skills . For motivation skills to succeed the difference between real and legal authority must be understood. Whereas we understand the need for (self) discipline, authority specifications, and a legal framework, effective management is also about creating a culture that promotes ownerships and liberates initiative, creativity, and individual capability.

To realise individual potential, and maximise performance, needs a culture based on change and human development. Empowerment based upon new leadership styles, behaviours, values and attitudes is essential. This requires trust, respect, confidence, and partnership. To effect change in culture and performance motivation skills are essential. Organisations rightly spend heavily on performance improvement training why then isn't a similar investment made in motivation skills? Without motivation skills how can team building and team performance be improved?

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Programme Introduction

This two day motivation skills training course examines what motivation is, how it is generated and how it can be used effectively to promote human relations, and productivity, and team building.

This motivation skills learning event recognises that people have different needs and respond in different ways, therefore the eternal questions confronting team managers are:

What factors keep people fully motivated and how can I turn round a poor performer?

Motivation skills sits at the heart of performance improvement

Although this motivation skills course is underpinned by the theories of eminent behavioural scientists it is the participants own experiences in their organisation that represents the key to unlocking situational difficulties. In this way this motivation skills course provides a practical examination of motivational problems.

It is generally accepted that a well motivated person will be positive in outlook and be a high achiever. The common element is that they like to be heard, understood and have their needs catered for. It is often said that you cannot motivate people only create the environment in which they will be motivated. Whilst this motivation skills training course has sympathy with this view it nevertheless is to simplistic for even in a healthy, i.e. an enlightened and progressive organisation not all individuals will respond favourably.

So why do some and not others?

To understand people better the motivation skills course places particular emphasis upon what is motivation and the analysis of human behaviour and how motivation skills influences human behaviour. This is partially achieved by examining the work of eminent human behaviour scientists. However to avoid the potential sterility of restricting thinking only to academic study this review will relate these theories to participants own experiences in their organisation. Placing behavioural theory in this way into a practical context helps participant's subject understanding and its application into day to day life.

To deliver effect change motivation skills considers how to maximise human resources through promoting greater awareness of job purpose, organisation relationships and motivation by objectives.

To conclude motivation skills considers how to realise (or alternatively the limits of) practical participation at the job level, in management decisions, in organisational policy and what immediate action could be taken to improve the organisations culture, empower people and transfer ownership for the results of their labours.

Success in this regard will capitalise on opportunities, increase productivity and reduce the risk of failures, i.e. investment in motivation skills, like any other investment decision, delivers value.

It's an understatement to say motivation skills are important
motivation skills are an essential generic competence