Team management and employee motivation training

Team management training - who will benefit from it?

Team management is an area consisting of very broad knowledge and competences acquired from training - after all, someone who manages a team should have a higher level of at least soft competences than the employees in his team. Training in this field will allow you to increase your level of competence and equip you with the necessary techniques that will make it easier for you to manage a team. The training is also a great opportunity to exchange experiences between managers who practice team management on a daily basis. In this article, you will learn:

Contents:

1. Team management - definition
2. Managing teams or motivating employees
3. How to manage a team
4. Team management training
5. Effective team management
6. Team management course
7. Team management PDF, book

Team management - definition

Team management is the influence on team members as well as the processes and relationships between them that result in the achievement of the goals delegated to them and strengthen the bonds between employees, as well as between employees, the manager and the company.

Managing teams or motivating employees

Why team management is necessary - after all, it is enough to recruit motivated employees, send them to training and take care of their motivation - one might think completely unreasonably. What happens that causes employees to become demotivated, and is motivation the only reason why you need to manage a team? 
Answering the first question - after some time, a motivated employee begins to get bored with his tasks, and this is a natural process that the manager is supposed to counteract thanks to team management training. Moreover, the company's management board needs information from its managers, and these - from employees, which is why one person, a manager, is needed to collect this information and pass it on, understanding the context and perception of the company's management board. The management board, if it has undergone appropriate team management training, also has a vision of the company and its development, so it needs managers who will translate this vision into goals and the goals into tasks. Finally, employees must be held accountable for these goals in order to evaluate and reward them fairly. The manager is also a person who receives first-hand information from the management board - and therefore is supposed to provide this information to employees, teach them, support them in their development (including by sending them to appropriate team management training).

How to manage a team

As you can see from the paragraph above, team management training is more than just motivating employees - team management, in the simplest model, consists of 4 functions performed by a manager:

• Organizing work - that is, equipping the employee with all knowledge (including vision, values) and competences
• Delegating tasks
• Motivating employees - including examining needs, using motivators and enforcing them
• Settlement - including: monitoring and evaluation, and we start the cycle again from the beginning - that is, based on the assessment, we set the employee's vision of changes

To effectively manage a team, you need to develop the above managerial functions depending on the stage at which the employee is - this is what the model: Situational Management by Hersey and Blanchard says:

1. There is no need to motivate a new employee (he wants to but is not able to), because he is highly motivated, we perform the rest of the functions (including organizing - i.e. sending him to appropriate training).
2. An employee who has been working for a while begins to make mistakes because he is learning, and therefore begins to demotivate (he does not want to and is not yet able to) - we use all 4 functions (motivation training is very useful here).
3. An employee who has already learned how to perform his duties begins to achieve success - you must remember that before his motivation returns, he must accumulate some successes (he can, but does not want to yet), so we perform all 3 functions on him, apart from organizing (here training is least important).
4. An employee who has already achieved some success - motivation returns again (he wants and can) - we do not have to motivate and organize, we perform the other two functions.
5. An employee who has been performing his duties for a long time begins to get bored and his motivation decreases (he does not want to, but he can do it) - therefore, it is very important that, in addition to delegating new tasks and holding him accountable for them, we also place great emphasis on motivating him, and preferably prevent this situation by using preventive motivation at every stage. Very often, these are employees at the expert stage, for whom the next stage of their career may be a managerial path, and the first step to it - training in team management and employee motivation.

Team management training

Team management training can and should teach you more than the above models - these are already known and theoretical models. You should expect specific techniques and tools from team management training that will constitute your complementary team management workshop. It is the application of these techniques that will ultimately determine the quality of your management. The training should therefore give you techniques for all 4 functions, e.g.

1. Team management techniques for organizing: management by values ​​(MBV), exposure, building a vision, coaching style of employee development
2. Team management techniques for delegation: SMART(UP), goal grid, management by goals (MBO)
3. Team management techniques for motivation: motivation grid, Wind in the Sails™, Motivational Algorithm™, 4AS™
4. Team management techniques for accountability: STAR, goal grid, periodic assessment, ZPZU, development interview

If you want to learn the above techniques and master effective team management, sign up for our training!

Effective team management

To manage effectively, a manager needs to gradually progress through subsequent levels of leadership as the team's competences and expectations develop. Each management level increases team management competencies in the following order, through our following Team Management training courses :

1. Personally effective manager
2. A business-effective manager
3. Effective leader of a committed team
4. Charismatic leader 

Our training will allow you to go through all managerial levels and become a real leader!

Team management course

You have to come to the training, but not to the course. Taking an online team management course is a very good idea for busy managers who are motivated enough to watch a team management course on their own in the evenings or weekends, internalize knowledge and discoveries and then implement them into their work. If you are not so motivated, it is better to come to a stationary team management training, cut yourself off from work for two days and enjoy the effects of the training and the fact that you immediately have the opportunity to practice - practicing all the techniques. If you choose a team management course, the exercise remains on your side. Additionally, in case of questions and doubts that always arise when implementing new knowledge, it is worth making sure that such a course includes some form of contact with a trainer.

Team management PDF, book

Managing a team requires acquiring knowledge that no one teaches us at school, sometimes we acquire it during studies in a very academic form, or during training - in a very practical form, therefore a valuable source of supplementing knowledge in this field are PDF files or a book containing tips on managing a team, which you treat as an addition to team management training. It would be ideal if the book or PDF contained specific team management case studies or team management techniques - it is worth checking the table of contents or a fragment of the book before purchasing it to invest your time in a good source of knowledge!