Creating Meaning for Employees
ID: 428 | Video: High | Audio: High | Animation: None
Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5 | Equivalent to QCF (UK): Level 3
Learn about creating meaning in your company for employees.
Janice Fraser is CEO and co-founder of Adaptive Path, an experience design consultancy firm based in San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. Janice is an experienced entrepreneur and in this free online course she talks in detail about how important the culture of a business is for the success of that business. She emphasises that a productive culture is one where managers create meaning for their employees. By promoting a business culture that employees can buy into they will become more motivated and work more passionately to make the business a success. Janice believes that alignment is the key factor underlying everything we do. In a business alignment means that employees are doing fulfilling work which they excel at. This course will be of great interest to all business professionals and managers who would like to gain advice and guidance about creating a successful business culture which has meaning for all employees.
Modules in Creating Meaning for Employees
Learning outcomes: - Understand why the culture of a business is important; - Understand how to create a meaningful culture for employees; - Understand the importance of alignment, and how it can motivate employees;
Kavita Iyer Vasir - India
2013-05-21 14:05:14
Course Module: Module 1: Creating Meaning for EmployeesCourse Topic: Creating Meaning for EmployeesComment: Creating meaning for the workforce. Conflict of interest is detrimental to the growth of any venture. The employees need to have a meaning, a sense of responsibility towards their key responsibility areas,precisely need to believe in the work that they do, to bring out the best for their organisation as well as for themselves. Employees need to be connected with what they are doing to be able to have a clear vision and work towards it, rather than superficially contributing to their domains.
An interesting case study of measuremap further clarifies the need to create meaning not only in the eco system of which we are a part, but also for our own self.This course mirrors the course on preserving culture and further flows into the idea of enhancing the competencies of the employees.
Kavita Iyer Vasir - India
2013-05-21 13:05:14
Course Module: Module 1: Creating Meaning for EmployeesCourse Topic: Coping with FailuresComment: Coping with failures: short shortsightedness/ hasty decisions leads to major failures may lead to losses in future.Selling one's idea is the greatest failure.
Belief in an eco system that governs us, and of which we are a part of, will help one have meaningfully travelled toward the next set of opportunities
Ishmael Oluwatoyin - Nigeria
2013-05-04 23:05:27
Course Module: Module 1: Creating Meaning for EmployeesCourse Topic: Managing a Technology-Driven CompanyComment: A good leader must have a teachable heart, ready to learn new thing every day and ask questions, dont pretend you know it all.
Ishmael Oluwatoyin - Nigeria
2013-05-04 21:05:27
Course Module: Module 1: Creating Meaning for EmployeesCourse Topic: Alignment and PeopleComment: Alignment and people is check and balancing every operation in an Organization that help people to excel
Ishmael Oluwatoyin - Nigeria
2013-05-04 20:05:03
Course Module: Module 1: Creating Meaning for EmployeesCourse Topic: Decision-makingComment: In any Organization effective decision making is very important for the growth and success of the business, giving a leader responsibility to carry out a duty must be accompany with authority to deliver it right and making him to be accountable as well.