Improve Employee Performance Idea 92 – June 23, 2009: Use Your Company Mission As A Motivator

If you are looking for a way to motivate employees, why not use something that you already have at your disposal.  That’s your company’s mission.  It represents something that you and your employees should be committed to support. 

But the way to use your mission is not to just point to it and say, “This is why you need to improve!”  Instead, you find some subtle and not so subtle ways to link performance to your mission.  Consider these approaches:

1. Identify how taking on a different assignment helps your company achieve its mission

2. Identify how a corrected assignment helps your company achieve its mission

3. Identify how a revised report helps your company achieve its mission

4. Identify how cooperating with another employee helps your company achieve its mission

I think you get the idea!  Use your mission as a banner and a mantra. 

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.