Develop and Motivate Your People Overview

Embed development and engagement in your team culture

These topics focus on practical actions and real processes that you can use to embed a culture of development and support engagement in your area of responsibility. 

Developing Your People

Developing your people, their skills, competencies and potential is a key leadership and management competency - and is essential if you want to improve performance and keep your people motivated.

This series of topics provides a practical guide to best practice plus downloadable templates to help you assess development needs, prepare development plans and set processes in place to ensure that they are not just filed away, but used to achieve development and career goals.

Coaching 

Coaching is a core leadership style.  Visit our coaching centre where you’ll find many free resources to help you understand and get the most out of the coaching process.

Motivation

An essential guide to motivation theory and working with intrinsic motivation.

By understanding key motivation theories we are better placed to understand how the needs and expectations of our people as well as our actions as leaders influence motivation in the workplace. 

Employee Engagement

Research shows that the single biggest driver of employee engagement and motivation is an employee's relationship with their immediate manager.  Therefore, if your team has a problem with engagement, that problem could well be you!

Learn what ‘Employee Engagement’ is and your critical role in creating the right conditions in your team to support it.

11 Actions That You Can Take To Make Your Team ‘A Great Place To Work’

Building on ‘Employee Engagement’, this article details 11 practical actions that you can take today to support employee engagement and make your team a great place to work!  

How well do you measure up to this list?  Which actions represent opportunities that you can take to improve your team’s motivation and engagement?

Blogs:  Another Year Over? How Will Next Year Be Different? 

There are a number of key factors that create the right conditions for employee engagement.  A big one is development. 

People are more likely to be engaged if they feel that they have new opportunities to learn and grow, and that they are moving forward in their roles and in their careers.

As you meet with each of your people to review this year’s performance, this practical guide will help you think ahead to next year, and plan together what will be different.

Blogs:  Is Money The Best Way Of Motivating Employees?

Recent motivation studies have concluded that while money is an important motivator, beyond a certain point, financial incentives have little impact on motivation - and can even reduce it.

What motivates each of us reflects our own needs and expectations.   Therefore recognising and responding to the individual, intrinsic motivators of our people is likely to create longer lasting and more powerful incentives for improved performance.

Related Topics

Managing Performance

In this series of topics, you’ll find many other resources to help you develop your people, including through both informal feedback and formal performance appraisals.