Organizational Commitment and Employee Engagement

Achieving employee buy-in towards new initiatives can present significant challenges. How does leadership properly balance motivational incentives with the team's productivity, satisfaction and/or profit objectives? Inspiring commitment is a key to success for enhancing organizational efficiency and boosting employee engagement. Utilize our helpful guidebook and action planning tools in order to develop a fresh perspective, effectively communicate with colleagues, and motivate employees towards success.

Course Outline

1. Commitment
   • Defining commitment and distinguishing it from motivation
   • Learning the importance of commitment
   • Describing three types of commitment
   • Inspiring commitment
     
     
2. Proactive Influence
   • Tactics for creating proactive influence
   • Practicing proactive influence techniques
     
     
3. Action Planning
   • Techniques for gaining commitment from others
   • Tips for applying what you learned about commitment in this class to your workplace

Learner Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the three types of commitment and implications of each
• Increase awareness and use of best practices for enhancing influence and motivation and mitigating resistance to change
• Practice analyzing situations to identify the types of commitment that exist and needs to be encouraged
• Identify barriers to commitment and change
• Practice developing awareness and use of proactive influence tactics to gain commitment for timely and meaningful information based on a simple request