This course leverages TED talks by Dan Pink, Simon Sinek, and Shawn Achor—plus interactive AI role-plays—to help you lead through motivation and morale. You'll develop essential soft skills to tap into intrinsic motivation, inspire action, create safe spaces, and use happiness to enhance productivity. By the end, you will be ready to lead and uplift your team with positivity and purpose.
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit 1: The Puzzle of Motivation by Dan Pink
- Building Blocks of Intrinsic Motivation
- Examples of Fostering Autonomy
- Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
- Unit 2: How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
- Applying the Golden Circle
- Start with Why
- The Biology of Decision Making
- Unit 3: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe by Simon Sinek
- Leadership as Parenthood
- Leaders Eat Last
- Leadership-Driven Cultures
- Unit 4: The Happy Secret to Better Work by Shawn Achor
- The Power of Positive Journaling
- Conscious Acts of Kindness
- Expressing Gratitude Effectively