Course: MGMT301
Section: 1S09
Date: TBD
Location: Fogelman College of Business, Education Suite – Room 385
Program Fees: $695 per individual; 10% discount for 3 or more registrations from the same organization
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Whether it's due to downsizing, evaporating budgets, or both, leaders are being asked to do more with less, and get the most out their workforce. This two-day program teaches attendees how leaders can utilize basic and advanced psychological principles to motivate employees and team members to higher performance levels. Mini-lectures, role-playing, exercises, and discussion are all used to bring alive the techniques successful leaders use to get maximum performance.

Topics Covered in the Program Include:

• The Performance Model: Understanding the basic elements that lead to employee performance
• Using the techniques of behavior modification to manage performance
• Enhancing performance through job enrichment and involvement
• Creating an equitable and just work environment
• How our perceptions and expectations influence performance
• Goal Setting Theory: Using goals and objectives to motivate performance

Who Should Attend?

Individuals holding positions across all levels of organizational hierarchies, including non-management professionals whose job it is to get work accomplished with and through peers and colleagues who are part of their work teams. This leadership program would be especially appropriate for lower and mid-level managers aspiring to move up the hierarchy, director level managers who have gained experience but feel a need for more formal leadership education, supervisors who aspire to managerial positions, small business owners and non-profit managers who must motivate volunteers.

Faculty: Bob Taylor, Ph.D.

Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Management in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at The University of Memphis. He teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and International MBA programs at the U of M, and has been an invited instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, The University of Eichstadt, Germany and at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. He has written extensively in a number of management areas and published a management textbook entitled Management: Comprehension, Analysis, and Application. He won the UM Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 and has been a consultant/trainer for numerous local and national companies and organizations since 1980.