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Online Webinar – Recorded May 7th, 2015
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

In nearly every organization, leaders are being held accountable to do something they cannot do-motivate others. Leaders can’t motivate people, because people are already motivated.

The question is not if a person is motivated but why.

This realization always leads to an epiphany for training and human resource practitioners. HR’s dependence on carrots and sticks to motivate people had become common practice because we didn’t understand the true nature of human motivation.

Now we do, thanks to thought leaders like Dan Pink and his blockbuster book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

Letting go of carrots and sticks has been a challenge.

HR leaders know:

  1. All about Dan Pink’s work,
  2. They know what they’ve been doing doesn’t work, and …
  3. They know managers aren’t successful at motivating people. But they haven’t understood what their alternatives are.

Understand viable alternatives to “Carrots & Sticks” on three levels:

  1. Individual (employees).
    • At this level, motivation is a skill. HR can teach employees the skills of motivation so they can thrive in any environment, even if the organization’s systems haven’t changed yet.
  2. Interpersonal (leaders).
    • HR can help leaders adjust their interpersonal interactions with employees – the way they set goals, have conversations, etc. – in ways that prime the pump for optimal motivation.
  3. Organization.
    • At some point, our systems are going to need to change – the systems around reward and recognition, compensation, job design, etc. What’s exciting is that until those systems change, we can still work at the individual and interpersonal, 1-to-1 level.

Join Susan in this dynamic presentation and learn what motivation is really all about!

Presenter : Susan Fowler (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consulting Partner The Ken Blanchard Companies is co author with Ken Blanchard of Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership. In this captivating business parable, Susan tells the story of a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician he comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge learned from the One Minute Manager, the magician teaches the three skills of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job but show him what he needs to know in order to keep growing, learning, and achieving.

Susan’s other bestselling books are:

BE SURE TO :  Check out Susan Fowlers website  it has great resources including the ability to Download a free  chapter of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work.  Reading chapter is worth up to 1 Category C PDU.

ALSO:  The Ken Blanchard Companies offers training associated with the content of the webinar and the book.

A Little Bit more about Dan Pink:

Daniel Pink, author of the bestselling books  A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,  is known for his visionary flare. Dan convincingly argues that business and everyday life will soon be dominated by right-brain thinkers.

Daniel Pink’s other best sellers include Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself the follow up book The 7 Dirty Words of the Free Agent Workforce and his most popular book The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media.

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…
And What Does

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