Creating a Positive Atmosphere

Course overview

This course provides 1.75 credit hours of continuing education for professionals, incorporating media-based video lectures and lesson tests in curricular modules. The course focuses on the benefits of engaging the workforce and of establishing a positive work culture. It addresses common qualities of engaged employees, drivers of employee motivation, and commitment challenges. Participants learn how employee engagement links to the bottom line by reducing turnover, best practices for creating a positive work environment, and the benefits of establishing a positive and engaged workforce, its characteristics, and concrete steps to creating one. The course explores the signs and impacts of negativity, as well as taking corrective action, if necessary, to engage employees. Course participants become familiar with organizational learning and its benefits to an organization. Additionally, the course examines the role of training, knowledge management, and technology in developing employees, and the pivotal role of continuous learning. By exploring the essential elements and indicators of a self-development culture, the course prepares for workplace assessment and its conduciveness to learning. Developing talent increases competitiveness and creates more satisfied, goal-oriented employees-which leads to a more profitable organization.