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Overview
How do you create a workplace where employees actually want to contribute their best work? Fostering a Culture of Engaged and Motivated Employees explores four essential areas for building employee engagement: developing self-awareness as an authentic leader, building trust and psychological safety within your team, enhancing communication skills for effective feedback and change management, and improving team dynamics through collaboration. Offered online or in-person, through practical activities, case studies, and group discussions, you'll apply proven strategies to understand what motivates your employees and adapt your leadership approach to different personalities and work styles.
By the end of this course, you'll have developed a personalized action plan to implement these leadership strategies in your workplace over the next three to six months. You'll leave with practical tools for connecting organizational purpose to employee motivation, techniques for giving emotionally intelligent feedback, and methods for introducing change without creating fear or resistance.
This course is ideal if you:
- have leadership experience outside of Canada and want to adapt your management style to local workplace expectations
- are stepping into a supervisor or lead hand role and want to build strong team relationships
- manage a crew or department and are seeking new ways to boost morale and motivation
- own or operate a small business and want to share a healthy, productive team culture.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- explain how understanding employees' values, motivations, and personal preferences contributes to workplace engagement and productivity
- model authenticity, vulnerability and compassion
- connect organizational purpose to employee motivation
- describe how psychological safety affects employee motivation and engagement
- explain how building and maintaining a culture of trust drives employee motivation and engagement
- enhance communication to foster trust, motivation and engagement
- evaluate the role and functionality of AI in workplace communication
- apply emotional intelligence (EI) to leadership communication
- incorporate change without creating fear or resistance
- identify methods to encourage collaboration, innovation, motivation and engagement.
To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.
If you're certified by a professional association, this course may qualify for continuing professional development (CPD) hours to help maintain your certifications/designations. Please check with your association to confirm eligibility.
Upcoming dates
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Registration closes seven days before the start date for on-campus, online scheduled, and blended courses, and one day before the start date for online self-paced courses.
After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Costs
Textbook and supplies
Included in the purchase of this course, you’ll receive:
- Course curriculum accessible online in Brightspace (D2L)
- Learning materials/hand-outs distributed in class (for classroom-based delivery)
Technology
To be successful in this course, you’ll need:
- Access to your own computer or laptop with standard hardware/software requirements
- Internet access
Note: Bringing your laptop to class is not required (for classroom-based delivery).
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant.
Applicable certificates
This course applies to the following certificate programs:
- Certification type
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Certificate of Achievement
Train your team
Interested in group training opportunities for this course? Tell us about your organization's needs, and one of our training consultants will contact you within one business day.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.