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Motivation: The Science of Motivating Yourself and Your Team (Udemy.com)

Motivation Mastery for Every Team Leader and Entrepreneur - The Critical Leadership Skill

Created by: Lawrence M. Miller

Last updated October 2018

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What you will learn

  • To gain mastery over your own behavior and to maximize your influence over your employees and associates.
  • To learn a model of analyzing and solving human performance problems.
  • You will learn an inclusive model that includes spiritual, social and situational motivation.
  • To learn to apply the science of behavior management to yourself and others.
  • You will learn how Lean management (Toyota Production System) employs the forces of motivation to engage and optimize human performance.
  • You will learn the "Coaching Kata", a simple and proven method of coaching others to improve specific skills and behavior.

How it compares

Against the other 503 rated Udemy courses in Teaching & Academics on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 27% of them
  • Reviews5,175#27 of 504 by number of reviews
  • Length3.9 hourslonger than 51% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2018earlier than 88% of them

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Course Description

Your success is your ability to motivate and develop your team and team members. If they perform, you perform. This course will provide those skills that are critical to your success.   

Motivation is not a speech or pep talk! It is the skill of creating a worthy purpose, an effective team environment, designing work for intrinsic motivation, and using positive reinforcement in an effective way. This course will enable you to develop a system of sustained motivation for yourself and your team.   

I have authored eleven books and the key to getting books published is simply the self-discipline to sit yourself down and write! I have been CEO of two companies and consulted with more than one hundred major corporations on improving human performance. In this course I have distilled the science of human behavior down to the essential practical lessons that every entrepreneur and manager must know and practice to succeed. 

     The topics covered in the course include the following: 

  • Sources of Motivation

  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

  • Optimizing Social Reinforcement

  • Developing a System of Motivation

  • The ABC Model of Managing Behavior

  • Using Reinforcement Schedules

  • Is it a “Can’t Do” or a “Won’t Do?”

  • Managing Yourself. The Biggest Challenge!

What students are saying about this course:

  • "I love the detailed yet simple approach this course takes." Nikhil Shah 

  • "Excellent content, actionable and well delivered!" David Davis

  • "Wow Great Course! Easy to understand with true life experience suggestions." Carolyn Swanson

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Instructor Details

Lawrence M. Miller

Larry Miller is now teaching eighteen courses with more than 400,000 students in 210 countries on Udemy.  He is the author of eleven books, and has more than forty years of experience consulting with major corporations on their business performance, culture and management systems. Several of his courses on management and leadership are best selling courses in their category and have been adopted by major corporations as part of their leadership development and lean culture implementation process.

His expertise is derived from hands on experience creating change in the culture of more than a hundred organizations. Among his consulting clients have been Honda, Corning, Shell Oil Company, Amoco and Texaco,  Air Canada,  Eastman Chemicals, Xerox, Harris Corporation,  Chick-fil-A, Merck and Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, United Technologies, Metropolitan Life and Landmark Communications.

He began his work in youth prisons after recognizing that the learning system in the organization had exactly the opposite of its intended effect – increasing, rather than decreasing, dysfunctional behavior. For four years he worked to redesign the prison system by establishing the first free- economy behind prison walls, where each inmate had to earn points, maintain a checking account, pay rent and pay for everything he desired. It resulted in measurable improvements in behavior. This was his first organizational transformation.

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Reviews

4.4

5,175 ratings on Udemy

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By Harald Boersma on 12/19/2025

Lawrence Miller delivers this course in his typical calm and pleasant way. The program combines simplified scientific theories with hands-on exercises and examples to bring these to life. Very useful as a starting point, but there's much more (science) to motivation than just this course. Looking forward to a more in-depth follow-up course.

By Rene Anglo on 6/10/2025

Dr. Lawrence Miller is a great instructor. This comprehensive course on team motivation is geared toward organizational leaders but also has practical applications outside of work. He talks about positive and negative reinforcements and how they influence people's behaviors. Other topics include the importance of recognition and giving and receiving feedback. I highly recommend this course.

By Shauna Lyn on 9/29/2024

I appreciated the information. The information is directly applicable to my job. I especially learned from the section on giving and receiving feedback. I would have liked to be given some practical examples of how to use variable ratio scheduled of reinforcement in the workplace. On the negative side, I felt the course could have been shorter. There was some repetition of information, too much self-promotion, and too many stories about playing the guitar. There were a number of outdated references. The screen was frozen most of the time, but the audio continued to play, so there were no delays.

By Alicia Sallese on 7/2/2024

I loved his stories and examples of how these concepts work. I felt the content was well organized and most of the quizzes had relevant questions that were not too easy. my only feedback would be maybe to emphasize or highlight how the concepts apply to our own motivation a little more.

By Johann Kruger on 11/14/2023

Practical useful tips / methods to use going forward. Whether you're a new leader or established there is always something new to learn. Enjoyed Larry's "casual" way of carrying across what is definitely a game changer. It's clear he's been around the block and speaks from a level of experience. I shall do my utmost to "be the model of continuous improvement". Thx Mr. Miller...

By Miguel Angel Alvarez Nieto on 2/24/2021

It's a useful course which includes lectures regarding different topics about motivation and its importance. I think many managers and directors should take it first because a lot of companies don't even apply any tips and techniques explained, and that kills the employee motivation sooner or later. As a suggestion for improving the course, I missed additional resources (documents or links) attached on certain lectures; I think that would be helpful.

By Andres Baron on 11/22/2020

yes

By Halala Ngema on 11/15/2020

It was excellent course

By Claire Grima on 11/15/2020

Not up to the expectations.

By Catherine Em B Abenes on 11/15/2020

The topic is interesting

By Farzeen Khan on 11/15/2020

Excellent Course! Thank you for sharing all these wonderful strategies.

By Felicia Jones on 11/8/2020

Good stuff :)

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Overall Score : 88 / 100