Indies Education · Business Curriculum
Core Team Management
Build clarity, trust, accountability, and coaching into the way your team works.
Handy’s Motivation Theory: A Critical Guide
Charles Handy’s motivation calculus asks managers to examine needs, the perceived link from effort to results and rewards, and whether rewards meet those needs. This chapter explains the historical model, psychological contracts, links to expectancy theory, modern evidence, application, limits, and ethical use.
Discover What Drives Your Team: An Evidence Guide
Teams are not motivated by one universal lever, and individuals’ priorities change with task and life context. This chapter provides a rigorous method for discovering motivation drivers through safe dialogue, observation, work design, progress evidence, patterns, experiments, fairness, and continuous review.
Understanding People’s Motivations at Work
Work motivation is not one trait or lever. This chapter integrates goal direction, expectancy, self-determination, fairness, identity, affect, habits, job design, social context, and strain—showing managers how to form competing explanations, choose evidence, design work, and avoid manipulative simplification.
Build a Happier, More Satisfied Team Responsibly
Team happiness and satisfaction emerge from work quality, fairness, relationships, meaning, autonomy, competence, psychological safety, manageable demands, and recovery. This chapter distinguishes mood, satisfaction, engagement, and wellbeing and provides an evidence-based system for diagnosis, redesign, measurement, and ethical leadership.
Planning a company retreat: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to planning a company retreat, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
8 ways to strengthen your team: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to strengthening a team, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Succession planning: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to succession planning, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
How to manage people’s retirement: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to managing retirement at work, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
How to be an effective coach: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to effective coaching, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
How to get best from people: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to getting the best from people, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Developing mutual understanding and trust: Practical MBA Gui
A rigorous practical guide to mutual understanding and trust, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
The GROW model of coaching and mentoring: Practical MBA Guid
A rigorous practical guide to GROW coaching model, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.