Course Description
Competition can feel like a bad word in a work culture that values collaboration and teamwork. But if you balance your ambition with socially intelligent choices, it can help motivate you and your colleagues to achieve your goals. In this course, we’ll teach you how to optimize competition to make a more successful team. We’ll also talk about how each workplace is made up of different individuals with their own goals and motivations. Although we tend to focus on our own achievement, much of our success is directly connected to the organization's health. This is why it’s important to help foster a collaborative work environment. Let’s learn about the relationship between having achievement orientation in your work culture.
After you’ve completed these lessons, you’ll know how achievement orientation affects competition. We discuss how to use achievement orientation to help your coworkers develop. And you will learn how achievement orientation can improve interactions with coworkers, build connections, and create healthy work environments. You can harness healthy competition and apply strategies to uplift and support them.
What You'll Learn
- Optimize healthy competition to build a more successful team
- Apply emotional intelligence and socially intelligent choices to balance ambition with collaboration
- Use achievement orientation to help coworkers develop and grow
- Build connections and foster healthy, collaborative work environments
- Balance relationships with productivity to act as a role model and cheerleader for your team
- Become more achievement-oriented in your work culture
Key Takeaways
- Competition can motivate you and your colleagues to achieve goals when ambition is balanced with socially intelligent choices.
- Each workplace is made up of different individuals with their own goals and motivations.
- Much of an individual's success is directly connected to the health of the organization, making a collaborative work environment important.
- Achievement orientation can improve interactions with coworkers, build connections, and create healthy work environments.
- Healthy competition can be harnessed and strategies applied to uplift and support coworkers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in this course?
You will learn how achievement orientation affects competition, how to use it to help your coworkers develop, and how it can improve interactions with coworkers, build connections, and create healthy work environments.
Who is this course for?
It is for people who want to balance ambition with collaboration in their work culture and become more achievement-oriented while supporting their team.
What topics does the course cover?
The course covers Emotional Intelligence, Creating Competition, and Achieving Together, alongside an Introduction and a Test Your Knowledge section.
What skills will I gain?
You will build skills in Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, and Competitive Intelligence.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end you will become more achievement-oriented, find out how to balance relationships with productivity, and explore ways to act as a role model and a cheerleader for your team.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.25
KnowledgeCity has been reviewed and approved by the PMI® Authorized Training Partner Program. Users can maintain your PMI credentials by earning PDUs from KnowledgeCity qualified courses in Project Management, Business Management, Leadership and many others.
Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.25
KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).
