MOTIVATION ONLINE COURSE
Discover the skills and knowledge necessary to apply motivation to individuals or groups.
This course will develop the student’s understanding of motivating factors and how to use them to increase workplace motivation for individuals or groups. Students will gain understanding of:
- the use of rewards
- how to initiate motivation
- how to maintain motivation
- avoid negative motivators
- how to apply motivational techniques to real world situations.
Course Content
This course contains eight lessons, as follows:
- Introduction
- How important is the study of motivation
- What is motivation
- Maslows theory of motivation
- Incentives
- Internal or intrinsic incentives
- Incentives external to the working environment
- The relational character of incentives
- Social reinforcers
- Awareness
- Motivation and goals
- Motivation and distress
- Reinforcement
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Tangible Rewards
- Self determination theory
- Hygiene and motivation theory
- Tangible rewards
- Intangible Rewards
- Intrinsic motivation
- Security -Cultural, Production of community, Gender, Age, Vocation, Education, etc
- Ethics
- Gratitude
- Belief systems
- Peer pressure
- Extringsic and intrinsic reinforcement at work
- Negative Motivators
- Punishment
- Pain
- Suffering
- Discipline
- Threat
- Initiating Motivation
- Explain how to initiate motivation with an individual or group for a situation not previously confronted.
- Maintaining Motivation
- Goal setting
- Influence of Groups on individual motivation
- Social loafing
- Employee motivation in the workplace by managers
- Expectations
- Job design
- Motivation for a personal trainer
- Applications
- Space management
- Time management
- Staff appraisals
- Expectations
- Vicious and virtuous cycles
- PBL Project: Create and present a plan with specific strategies for improving the employee’s motivation in the workplace, based on a clear understanding of the person’s needs, values and situation.
Duration: 100 hours
WHAT QUALIFICATION WILL I ACHIEVE FOR COMPLETING THIS COURSE?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study. If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments. There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
AIMS
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Describe the nature and scope of motivation
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Identify the differences between people that distinguish the application of motivational skills
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Explain the significance of knowledge and understanding to motivation.
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Explain the effects of Tangible Rewards (eg: Money, Services, Goods) as a major motivator.
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Explain the effect of intangible Rewards (eg: Security, Ethics, Gratitude, Belief Systems/Religion, Peer Pressure) as a major motivator.
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Explain how actions can be motivated by negative motivators such as pain, suffering, discipline, threat), and distinguish this type of motivation from positive motivation.
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Explain how to initiate motivation with an individual or group in a situation not previously confronted.
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Explain how motivation can be maintained or increased in both successful and unsuccessful environments.
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Identify a range of situations where motivational skills can be applied, and determine an appropriate way to initiate and maintain motivation in each of those situations.
MORE INFORMATION ON ACS DISTANCE EDUCATION AND OUR COURSES
Who are our tutors?
Our tutors are all highly experienced and professional, knowledgeable in their field of study. We have staff from around the world, enabling us to gain a wide variety of perspectives. We have a school in the UK and in Australia. If you would like to have a look at our tutors, then click on the “The School” in the boxes above and choose “The Staff” option.
Sample Course Notes
Our courses are all written by highly qualified tutors and writers, who also teach on the courses, so know them well. We strive to update our courses and improve them with new information, methods and knowledge on an ongoing basis. If you would like to see examples of some of our courses, then choose the “Enrolment” option above, and then click on “Sample Course Notes”.
What learning method should I choose?
We offer three learning methods – e-learning, correspondence and online. If you are not sure which is the right choose for you, then click on the “Enrolment” box above, then “Learning Methods.”
How Long will it take to complete the course?
This obviously varies from student to student. Some students will have more time for study than others. Some students may work quicker than others, so it is an individual thing. We estimate that most students will take, for example, 4 – 6 months to complete a 100 hour individual module, but we allow up to 12 months for you to complete it.
Longer courses will obviously take longer. You can find more information on the length of time required and so on the “Enrolment” box, then selecting “Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.”
What Do Our Students think of us?
If you would like to read comments from our previous students, then choose the “Enrolment” option above, then “Student Testimonials”.
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Who is ACS Distance Education?
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MOTIVATION ONLINE COURSE
Discover the skills and knowledge necessary to apply motivation to individuals or groups.
This course will develop the student’s understanding of motivating factors and how to use them to increase workplace motivation for individuals or groups. Students will gain understanding of:
- the use of rewards
- how to initiate motivation
- how to maintain motivation
- avoid negative motivators
- how to apply motivational techniques to real world situations.
