Live Webinar March 14th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
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Everyday Actions That Drive Employee Engagement and Performance
Leaders face a formidable challenge in keeping employees engaged in their work—deeply involved and fully committed. Traditional motivators, like incentive systems, can get people to show up and do the work. But it takes something more to spark the passion that leads to the highest levels of creative productivity.
Recent research discovered that “something moreâ€â€”progress in meaningful work, even “small wins.â€
This webcast unravels the secrets of inner work life—the usually hidden emotions, perceptions, and motivations that arise as people react to events in their work day. You’ll discover how what you say and do every day can drive positive inner work life throughout your organization and fuel great performance for the long term. In addition, you find out ways to avoid the traps that can undermine inner work life and performance.
Learn:
- What inner work life is and why it matters to people and their organizations
- How inner work life drives performance on four dimensions:
- Creativity
- Productivity
- Commitment to the work
- Commitment to colleagues
- How even incremental progress in meaningful work can lead to great inner work life
- What you can do at the start of each project to make the work meaningful
- How you can boost consistent progress by strategic use of “catalystsâ€â€”such as learning-oriented reactions to setbacks
- How you can support healthy inner work life through “nourishersâ€â€”such as building camaraderie
- How you can avoid the negativity traps of meaningless work, inhibitors to progress, and toxins that poison inner work life
Join us as we delve into the real-life diaries of people doing innovative work, to explore how small steps can lead to superior long-term performance.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.
Presenters:
Teresa Amabile (LinkedIn profile) is a professor and director of research at Harvard Business School. She has published articles on motivation, creativity, and everyday work life and is the author of several books including The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, & Creativity at Work
, Creativity In Context: Update To The Social Psychology Of Creativity
, and Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking
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Steven Kramer is a developmental psychologist and independent researcher who writes extensively for the Harvard Business Review. He is also the coauthor of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, & Creativity at Work,.
PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources
- 9.3 Develop Project Team
- 9.4 Manage Project Team
As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’
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