Improve Employee Performance Idea 104 – February 23, 2010: Use Desire For Different Tasks as a Motivating Tool

Do you have any employees who want to take on different tasks?  If so, why not use their interests as a way to encourage improved or continued performance. How?  Try these ways:

1. Explain how improving poor performance in one area is directly linked to the skills needed to take on a desired different task.

2. Explain how continuing outstanding performance in one area is directly linked to the skills needed to take on a desired different task.

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