About this course

Proficiency Area: Learning.

Population Needs is an organization's ability to assess the needs of a target population in relation to its programs, services, or strategies.

In the first lesson toward your gold Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • How to leverage the sources of personal motivation to better understand your population.

  • Four ways to build motivation on a personal and team level...and to understand your population's motivations.

  • The critical differences between motivation and inspiration, and a few suggested team exercises to build group motivation.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Motivation in Population Needs Lens

    1. Getting Motivated to Understand Your Population

    2. Building Team Motivation to Understand Your Community

    3. Check your learning

    1. Getting (and Staying!) Motivated about Population Needs

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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