SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Supervisors

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:07:48 -0400

SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Managing Motivation during Organizational Change (22 min)

A key challenge for managers is motivating and engaging employees during times of organizational change. To survive and grow in volatile markets, organizations have to embrace change; they have to innovate and adapt. However, because change involves uncertainty, it's stressful, and it can impact employee motivation and productivity – just at a time when an organization needs everyone to pull together and give their best efforts.
In this course, you'll learn change management techniques to help you recognize and manage employee stress, as well as your own stress, during periods of change. You'll also learn about common reactions to change, and strategies for managing change to enable you to engage, motivate, and support employees.

Participants will learn to:

recognize common signs of stress in employees

identify examples of time management techniques that managers can use to manage their own stress

recognize strategies for reducing employee stress during times of organizational change

recognize ways to focus on employee motivation and be an example during times of change

recognize ways to communicate with employees and foster a good organizational culture during times of change

support employees during difficult times by acknowledging their experiences

support employees during difficult times by allowing them to react