Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Technical Professionals


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
If you're having problems finding and keeping technical professionals, you're not alone. In our financially competitive and technologically advanced business world, technical professionals are in great demand. Managers need to find ways to attract top-performing technical employees and keep them once they're on the job. In fact, surveys show that managers list attracting, motivating, and retaining these technical professionals as one of their most challenging tasks. This course is designed to help managers meet that challenge. In it you will learn the factors and techniques that can attract competent technical people to a job, and you will learn how to apply these techniques to your own company. Plus, you will explore how to create the kind of work environment that will support and delight these professionals so they will continue to improve their performance and stay with your company.

Target Audience
This course is designed for middle- and upper-level managers who supervise technical professionals.

Expected Duration (hours)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Attracting Technical Professionals

  • recognize the benefits of attracting top-performing technical professionals to your organization.
  • match the attributes of technical professionals with their job-seeking behaviors.
  • select elements that attract technical professionals.
  • analyze techniques for attracting technical professionals to a business or organization, in a given situation.
  • Motivating Technical Professionals

  • recognize the benefits of motivating technical professionals.
  • select examples of elements that motivate technical professionals in their work.
  • match methods for setting challenging goals to motivate technical professionals.
  • apply methods for setting challenging goals, in a given scenario.
  • Retaining Technical Professionals

  • recognize the benefits of retaining technical professionals.
  • apply strategies to create work environments that retain technical professionals, in a given situation.
  • identify performance evaluation criteria that help retain technical professionals.
  • apply the performance evaluation criteria that can help retain technical professionals, in a given situation.
  • Course Number:
    MGMT0292