Motivation and Leadership

Overview

Motivation is significant because it inspires high performance and achievement within organisations. Studies have revealed that high employee motivation is linked to both organisational excellence and profitability. They have also shown that employees’ motivation to improve productivity and performance increases when they have challenging goals and receive feedback on their progress. Goals without feedback and feedback without goals have little impact on motivation.

If motivation is so critical to organisational excellence and success, why is there so little emphasis placed on it in most organisations? The fundamental reason is that most organisations are “over-managed and under-led”.

Leadership evokes imagery of inspiration, vision, courage, creativity, passion and optimism… You follow a leader because they are worth following – they inspire and motivate you.Management evokes a quite different image: of steadiness, rationality, analysis and control. You follow a manager because you have to.

Management is more about capability, whereas leadership is about the product of capability and credibility. Credibility is the key to motivating and inspiring employees to achieve organisational excellence.

Topics Covered

Material covered in the Short Course will include a strategic perspective of leadership and motivation with a review of contemporary management theory and research, as well as a very strong emphasis on the practical application, including the use of case studies, exercises, and examples.

Specific areas to be covered include:

• What is motivation?
• What is the link between motivation and leadership?
• What are the theories of motivation, and how can they be applied in practice?
• What is empowerment, and why is it so important in relation to both motivation and leadership?
• What is leadership?
• What are the theories of leadership, and how are they relevant to achieving organisational excellence?
• Is there a difference between leaders and managers?
• Leadership at all levels – is this a believable concept?
• The leader’s role in development of strategy.
• The leader’s role in planning.
• The critical importance of communication.
• Shaping culture and values.
• It’s all about service and quality.
• Is it anything more than passion for people?
• The future of leadership.

So take this unique and special opportunity to build your leadership capability and enhance your leadership potential. Many of the examples and case studies used are unique to this course only! 

And yes! Leadership can be learned!

Who should attend

Chief executives, general managers, middle managers, team leaders, supervisors, school principals, military officers, and business owners – both from the private and public sectors.

Outcomes

At the end of this Short Course you will develop a wider and more embracing understanding of both motivation and leadership.