The world is preparing to live with the coronavirus - and for many who are still working remotely, this means an inevitable return to the office. As a leader, how can you mediate your employee’s - very valid - anxieties and draw on your workforce to create a workplace that is positive, motivational, and which supports your employees’ professional and emotional needs.

In this masterclass with Dr Matthew Della Porta, you will discover how you can - and why you should - prepare your working culture and environment with human value at the forefront of your plans. Digging into the basic psychological needs of employees, you will also gain a new framework for approaching your workplace with a more human-centred approach to create more sustainable businesses with more satisfied employees.

Discover why happier employees leads to a better bottom line, and how you can boost the motivation of your own, in this high-impact workshop with a PhD expert in positive psychology.

Course Content

Leadership challenges and opportunities in a post-Covid world
What is ‘human value’ and why is it critical for organisational leaders to create for employees?
The three basic psychological needs of employees
Healthy motivation, and why employees with it create the most value for customers
Understanding the workplace ‘ECOsystem’ model, and why it is mutually beneficial for employees, customers and organisations
How to redesign your leadership processes to deliver human value to employees
Q&A

This course is for ...

Anyone in managerial positions within organisations of any size
Entrepreneurs building their own businesses
Those interested in understanding how progressive businesses draw on positive psychology to create a more satisfied workforce

Tutor Profile

Dr Matthew Della Porta has for nearly decade been an expert in happiness and positive psychology, and uses his expertise to assist organisations with boosting employee engagement for bottom line results. He earned his PhD in positive psychology under the supervision of Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky, one of the world’s top happiness researchers. Matthew has provided his expertise to business culture consultancies in affiliation with world-renowned human potential expert Shawn Achor and the late Tony Hseih, former CEO of Zappos. He has also provided onsite consulting services for organisations including Nationwide Insurance and T-Mobile. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys playing the drums and board games. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, two daughters and two cats. Learn more about Dr. Della Porta’s work as a business consultant at leanpositive.com.

You will be sent a link to the webinar 2hrs before the start time of 3pm (BST).

Course Details

Date:Wednesday 18 August 2021
Time: 3PM - 5.30PM (BST)

3pm BST | 4pm CEST |7 am PDT | 10am EDT

This masterclass is available globally. If you are joining us from outside the United Kingdom, please use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.

You will be sent a link to the webinar two hrs before the start time. Please email masterclasses@theguardian.com if you have not received the access link within one hour of the scheduled start time.

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Full course and returns information on the Masterclasses website

How leaders can create healthy motivation at work in a post-Covid world