Improve Employee Performance Idea 101 – February 14, 2010: Use Planning and Organizing Skills to Identify your Best Managers

How do you distinguish between your good, better, and best managers?  One way is to examine how effective they are at Planning and Organizing.  Here are six ways you can make that determination:

1. Ability to formulate short-term plans.
2. Ability to carry out projects.
3. Ability to develop budgets.
4. Ability to determine optimal allocation and utilization of resources.
5. Ability to translate long-range plans into short-term operational goals.
6. Ability to recommend and develop policies and procedures.

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, Ph.D. 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.