Improve Employee Performance Idea 85 — March 12, 2009: Manage By Employees’ Objectives

If you want your employees to achieve your objectives, try explaining how achieving your objectives will allow employees to achieve their objectives.  How?  Use these juxtaposing questions as a guide to create your own list:

1. What interests my employees when it comes to working with people?  Can I link the achievement of our organizational objectives to these interests?

2. What interests my employees when it comes to “not” working with people? Can I link the achievement of our organizational objectives to these interests?

3. What interests my employees when it comes to doing different types of tasks? Can I link the achievement of our organizational objectives to these interests?

4. What interests my employees when it comes to doing “the same” types of tasks? Can I link the achievement of our organizational objectives to these interests?

KEY REMINDER:  To improve employee performance, you have to conduct effective performance discussions, give effective performance feedback, reinforce employee performance, and use effective performance phrases to write effective performance appraisals.  

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Barbara Brown, PhD shows managers how to improve employee performance by linking performance to results. She publishes handbooks that contain phrases for discussing performance and for writing appraisals. Dr. Brown also provides training and consulting. Visit www.LinkToResults.net or email her at Barbara@LinkToResults.net.