Motivation: The Surprising Truth Behind What Increases Engagement in the Workplace

According to the Gallup Q12 survey, only 30% of the American workforce is actively engaged in what they do, 52% are not engaged and an alarming 18% are actively disengaged. They are not just unhappy, they are busy acting out their unhappiness, undermining their more engaged coworkers.

We used to believe that the best businesses and organizations and even our schools encourage optimal performance by creating motivational systems using ‘carrots and sticks’, or ‘if-then’ rewards – if you do this, then you get that. We now know that these models of motivation are no longer effective. Forty years of research reveals the surprising truth that traditional notions of motivation in the workplace do not work very well, and that there is a better way to engage people and get them to perform at a higher level.

This program is all about the new science of workplace engagement, and how we can tap into the discretionary emotional energy of employees to create engaging, positive and motivated environments.

Learning Objectives

  • Define employee engagement
  • Discuss the benefits of employee engagement
  • Learn how experts look at engagement
  • Discern the basic human needs that drive engagement
  • Delineate six different levels of self-motivation
  • Self-assess current levels and desired levels of self-motivation
  • Discover how to shift yourself to an optimal motivational outlook
  • Discover how to conduct motivational outlook conversations with other employees
  • Learn how to encourage employees to shift themselves to an optimal motivational outlook
  • Learn how to get people to spend their discretionary emotional energy on your projects