Acknowledgment Works - Training in Essential Management Skills

AcknowledgmentWorks customizes its programs to meet the individual needs of each client.

All of our services are geared to provide your staff with concrete transferable skills and tools that can be immediately implemented in your organization.

Training

Sustaining Employee Morale and Motivation in Challenging Times

The Problem: Salaries and hiring are frozen, layoffs are frequent, the usual rewards, incentives, benefits and little extras that employees have come to expect have been cut. How do managers prop up employee morale and motivation in these challenging times?

The Solution: Acknowledgment, recognition, and praise. It is free and extremely effective when done right. The problem is that managers are often either uncomfortable or ineffective at giving and receiving acknowledgment. The interactive AcknowledgmentWorks methodology provides managers, supervisors, and team leaders with the skills and understanding to use acknowledgment to increase morale and motivation in your workplace.

Audience: Managers, Supervisors, HR Specialists, and Team Leaders.

Group: 5 to 30 people

Time: 3 hours (1.5 hour abbreviated workshop available)

The program provides participants with:

Expanded understanding of acknowledgement, praise, and recognition

Insight into personal relationship to acknowledgment

Awareness of the common misuses of praise which foster distrust in organizations

Enhanced ability to both give and receive acknowledgement

Tools on how to use acknowledgment, recognition, and praise to prop up employee morale and motivation in these challenging times.

Individual & Team Coaching:

One-on-One Personal Coaching

Provides CEOs, managers, and supervisors coaching on how to increase their organization’s capacity for acknowledgment. Chris will work one-on-one with the client to identify the current barriers, create an action plan, and work with staff members to insure follow-through.

Team Coaching

If your teams acknowledged each other instead of put each other down, would it make a difference? We work with your teams to identify problematic dynamics, lead exercises to build relationships, and help them to put structures in place to use acknowledgment, recognition, and praise to maintain a healthy and productive work environment.

What Makes A Good Acknowledgment?:

"A good acknowledgement is usually one that sounds honest and believable and heart-felt"
-IT Professional, North Carolina

"One that gives detailed information surrounding what has been recognized and allows for further discussion if necessary."
-Scholar, Zimbabwe

"Honest 'from the heart' acknowledgement that includes how the acknowledger was personally affected. The human touch."
-Software Consultant Dallas, TX

"I think that written acknowledgement is the best, because you can take it in at a later date and re-read it to let it sink in."
-Diversity Trainer / Management Consultant, Washington D.C.

AcknowledgmentWorks
Christopher B. Littlefield
Phone: (207) 504-0137
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