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Maximizing Engagement: Fuel Motivation, Retain Talent, & Accelerate Success
3-Hour (Virtual)
Dec 2, 2025
Christopher Littlefield
Live on Zoom
11am - 2pm EST | 10am - 1pm CST | 8am - 11am PST
$395 (US) per person
You Will Learn: Leadership Skills  |  Performance / Excellence
What You'll Walk Away With
  • Identify the key ingredients for fostering meaningful employee engagement.
  • Understand what makes employees feel valued and inspired to perform at their best.
  • Avoid common pitfalls and weave company values into daily appreciation efforts.
  • Master key strategies to boost motivation, trust, and long-term commitment.
You'll also walk away with recognized continuing education credits (CPE and SHRM), a certificate of completion, and a shareable digital badge for LinkedIn or other platforms. These can highlight your expertise to your manager and help strengthen your professional profile.
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About This Session

Do your people feel valued by their leaders? If not, they may be looking for another job. Losing a key person can be devastating for your business. Yet, many leaders use the excuse of being too busy to avoid having the simple day-to-day conversations that would have had their employees stay. When effort goes unnoticed, it turns into resentment, unaddressed issues turn into toxic dynamics, and fed-up employees leave. If leaders want to build and maintain the respect, trust, and relationships that make people feel valued and allow great work to get done, it is time to master the Art of Recognition and Engagement.

Chris will introduce leaders to the core elements of engagement, help them assess how they are doing with their people, and provide strategies to address any gaps. Leaders will leave with an abundance of tried and tested check-ins, relationship-building activities, team rituals, and tools to help them maintain an employee experience that gets results.

Topics Covered
Understanding What Employees Need to Feel Valued and Motivated
  • Identifying individual drivers of engagement and performance
  • Customizing recognition and support to enhance workplace satisfaction
Avoiding the Four Most Common Recognition Pitfalls
  • Recognizing behaviors that erode trust and disengage employees
  • Ensuring authenticity and fairness in acknowledgment and rewards
The Key Ingredients for Employee Engagement
  • Creating a culture of appreciation and accountability
  • Leveraging small, meaningful actions to drive long-term engagement
Strengthening Work Relationships Through Recognition and Praise
  • Using acknowledgment as a tool to foster positive workplace connections
  • Transforming difficult relationships through strategic recognition
Practical Tools for Building a High-Engagement Culture
  • Implementing check-ins, team rituals, and relationship-building exercises
  • Developing sustainable habits to maintain a motivated and results-driven team
Christopher Littlefield
Christopher Littlefield is an International Speaker, Expert in Employee Appreciation, Workplace Culture and the founder of Beyond Thank You. He has trained thousands of leaders, across six continents, on how to understand what their people want and need to be at their best. His clients include Accenture, Boston Medical, Lebanese Postal Service, MIT Sloan School of Management, Reserve Bank of Australia, Salesforce, the U.S. Army, the United Nations, and more. His work has been featured in New York, Inc, Mindful, and British Psychologies Magazines, and profiled in Harvard Business Review. Chris is a regular contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review and the author of the bestselling book, 75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams.
Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Participants will earn 3 CPE credits or 3 PDC credits
Field of Study: Personal Development
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