Improve Employee Performance Idea 113 – May 7, 2010: Give Multiple Reasons for Learning

Encouraging employees to be passionate about learning something new requires more than just giving them a list of courses they can take.  You have to also give them a personal reason for taking those courses.  The more reasons you can give, the better.  Consider these areas:

Work:  Will help the employee excel in some task.

Career:  Will help the employee advance on the job.

Interest:  Will fulfill the employee’s desire to learn something new.

Complaint:  Will address the employee’s concerns about lack of learning opportunities.

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.