Saying you want to motivate your learners is easy to say and impossible to make happen. Sorry to have to tell you so…
In other words, you cannot effectively MOTIVATE people to learn– although you can certainly DE-MOTIVATE them. However, you do have tremendous INFLUENCE over a learner’s ENVIRONMENT.
What does that mean?
It means you can affect the tools and resources one has to learn new tasks and skills. You can provide effective activities and content as one learns and practices. You can provide assessments and evaluation that give the learner proper, informational feedback so one knows what to do to improve. You can demonstrate and facilitate comprehension of the meaning and purpose your learning experience (workshop, course, program, etc.) offers. You can provide options for how one engages with your course within the constraints of effective learning science and instructional design. You can foster relationships and peer learning when appropriate and frequently involve learners in their own learning process. And, so much more.
This presentation will provide principles, tips, and techniques for supporting all of the above as you strive to meet the motivational needs of your learners.
By the end of this presentation, you will:
- Be more equipped to discuss the role of motivation in the learning context.
- Understand the impacts and consequences rewards and reinforcement systems have on learners.
- Identify the components of motivation, or the basic psychological needs, that include a sense of relatedness, a sense of competence, and a sense of autonomy.
- Receive and learn to use a checklist for supporting those three basic psychological needs that affect one’s motivation to learn.
- Ultimately maximize the likelihood you engage, rather than disengage.
Matt Richter – Thought leader motivation theory and performance technology
Matt is the President of The Thiagi Group– which is less impressive than it sounds since there are only two people in the company and he is ranked number two. He is a facilitator, game designer, instructional designer, and management consultant. Matt has consulted and delivered training to many organizations around the world. Along with his expertise in the delivery of learning and application of learning science, he is also an expert in the areas of management, leadership, motivation, and performance technology.
His book, The Leadership Story: A New Model for Leadership was published in 2016. In 2020, he co-authored, LOLA: Live Online Learning Activities with his partner, Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Thiagi). In 2024, the two were at it again, publishing Interactive Techniques for Learning. And in 2025, his latest book, Sustainable Leadership will be published by LDA Press.
Matt is also the co-director of LDA (The Learning Development Accelerator), a professional membership group for people in the learning and development field, where we encourage the use of research-inspired and evidence-informed practices.
Finally, Matt is also an <<auteur, intervenant>> and thesis advisor at EMLyon in France, as a part of their executive MBA program.
Ja, ik wil Matt ook ontmoetenOf maak gebruik van de combideal en kom niet alleen naar Next Learning maar ook naar het congres AI-deas for Learning + Education op 19 november 2025 & de Masterclass op 20 & 21 november 2025.