Employee Motivation and Performance Management

Motivation has a profound effect on employees' productivity and performance. An organization improves its likelihood of success by maintaining a motivated work force. As a leader within your organization, you share in the responsibility of motivating your employees. You also want to be able to lead the individuals on your team effectively by conducting ongoing performance appraisals; delivering helpful and instructive feedback, training, and coaching; and designing and implementing performance standards. You want to develop talent within your team by employing effective performance-management strategies on the job. This course will help you cultivate the skills necessary to motivate your employees and give you essential performance-management skills. This course is designed for managers, supervisors, human resource personnel, and team leaders who are seeking to inspire employees and optimize their performance. In this course, you will identify strategies for motivating employees and developing them through the application of basic performance-management techniques. You will: • Commit to employee motivation. • Motivate employees. • Develop self-motivated employees. • Establish a foundation for performance management. • Optimize employee performance using performance-management strategies. • Create employee performance and development plans. This course requires that you have Microsoft Office installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements

• Identify strategies to motivate employees
• Develop talents through performance management
• Implement effective performance management strategies
• Provide constructive and motivating feedback
• Build self-motivated teams

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete practice activities