Motivation is what makes us successful as workers, as employers, as teachers and in everyday life.
Learn to motivate people and improve their performance - in Sport, Business, Health, Education, or other fields.
Motivated people work better, live more satisfied lives, and are generally healthier and happier.

 - Motivated employees drive the success of a business.
 - Motivated students are driven to achieve higher grades.
 - Motivated athletes want to win.

Learn how to get the best out of people by understanding this valuable skill.

This course contains eight lessons, as follows:

1. Introduction
   • How important is the study of motivation
   • What is motivation
   • Maslows theory of motivation
   • Incentives
   • Internal or intrinsic incentives
   • Incentives external to the working environment
   • The relational character of incentives
   • Social reinforcers
2. Awareness
   • Motivation and goals
   • Motivation and distress
   • Reinforcement
   • Classical conditioning
   • Operant conditioning
3. Tangible Rewards
   • Self determination theory
   • Hygiene and motivation theory
   • Tangible rewards
4. Intangible Rewards
   • Intrinsic motivation
   • Security -Cultural, Production of community, Gender, Age, Vocation, Education, etc
   • Ethics
   • Gratitude
   • Belief systems
   • Peer pressure
   • Extringsic and intrinsic reinforcement at work
5. Negative Motivators
   • Punishment
   • Pain
   • Suffering
   • Discipline
   • Threat
6. Initiating Motivation
   • Explain how to initiate motivation with an individual or group for a situation not previously confronted.
7. Maintaining Motivation
   • Goal setting
   • Influence of Groups on individual motivation
   • Social loafing
   • Employee motivation in the workplace by managers
   • Expectations
   • Job design
   • Motivation for a personal trainer
8. Applications
   • Space management
   • Time management
   • Staff appraisals
   • Expectations
   • Vicious and virtuous cycles
   • PBL Project: Create and present a plan with specific strategies for improving the employee’s motivation in the workplace, based on a clear understanding of the person’s needs, values and situation.

 

Duration:  100 hours

 

 

Need for Achievement

Leaders may have a need for achievement. They may want the status, power, money etc. that they receive with leadership. They may seek leadership as a way to meet their need for achievement.  This achievement can be attained in a range of ways or fields. For example, a leader in sport may be the fastest 100 metre runner. A leader in business may be someone who sets up a very profitable fast growing company.

Need for Affiliation

The need for affiliation is the need to be linked to others; to become members with others. A leader may feel this need - the need to belong to a group, to be a member of a group. Along with the need for affiliation, they will also have other needs and skills which they can use to become a leader of the group they are affiliated with.

Need for Social Respect

Some leaders may feel that leadership gives them social respect. They are known as a leader, respected, and viewed as someone to follow.

Need for Positive Regard

Some leaders may also feel that being a leader is a way for them to receive positive regard, positive feelings from others. Obviously, this is not always the case, some leaders may not receive positive regard all of the time, and some may be perceived negatively by their followers some of the time. Even leaders who are viewed mostly as positive and good leaders may not be well viewed or liked as people. 

Self-actualisation

Abraham Maslow’s developed a humanistic theory.  Although he conceded that theories based upon homeostasis (the maintenance of equilibrium) were useful, he felt that more focus was necessary on the individual’s tendency to grow on all levels, including the spiritual. In his own words: "More and more psychologists have found themselves compelled to postulate some tendency of growth or self perfection to supplement the concepts of equilibrium, homeostasis, tension reduction..."

 

Understanding Motivation

Motivation is a process that causes us to act or think in a certain way. It is about needs and drives, and the behaviour that leads to the goal that satisfies them. It can come from within us, it can be in response to rewards, and it can be facilitated.
 

Motivation is one of the most widely studied topics in organisational psychology, sports coaching, business management, education, and other fields. This is not surprising because motivation underlies success in so many areas of life. There are many different theories of motivation. Each of them provides a different perspective, yet they all describe the same thing. But which ones are better able to describe motivation in different contexts?

Study this course to: 

 - Learn about the difference between internal (intrinsic) motivation and external (extrinsic) motivation.
 - Understand the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment. 
 - Determine how and when to use rewards to motivate people. 
 - Discover how to use techniques that underlie motivational theories.
 - Master the skills of motivation.

Enrol today to start making a difference to your own success and the success of others. 

 

 

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