About this course

Proficiency Area: Managing.

Staff Professional Development is an organization's ability to effectively provide professional development and to support staff in the process of putting what they learn into practice.

In the first lesson toward your gold Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • A review of motivation and the needs hierarchy of human experience.

  • How professional development efforts serve to met our basic needs of belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

  • What incentives are, and three types of incentives that can help us get motivated to pursue professional development.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Motivation in Professional Development Lens

    1. Getting Motivated about Professional Development

    2. Incentivizing Professional Development

    3. Check your learning

    1. Getting (and Staying!) Motivated about Professional Development

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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