Managing Day-to-Day Employee Performance

Clear performance expectations are a critical factor in teamwork success. Whether your goal is to develop a project team, your departmental team, or a sense of teamwork company-wide, clear performance expectations support teamwork success. Use clear performance expectations to help your employees develop accountable, productive, meaningful, participatory teamwork.

Do you have responsibility for supervising the work of others? If so, you know that employees don't always do what you want them to do. On the one hand, they act as if they are competent professionals. On the other, they procrastinate, miss deadlines, and wait for instructions. So, what's a supervisor to do? Performance management is your answer. You must begin by finding out why the employee is not meeting your expectations. This checklist for employee performance management will help.

Looking for a step-by-step coaching approach you can use to help an employee improve his work performance? This approach avoids discipline and produces great results.

Are you fed up with the return on investment you experience with your current performance appraisal? Ready to change your approach? You can improve productivity, motivation, and morale by handling performance management and development in new ways.

Performance management encompasses the important people issues in your organization. Performance management includes the entire relationship you have with the people you employ. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when you define a job. Learn more.

Your leadership style is situational. Your leadership style depends on the task, the team or individual's capabilities and knowledge, the time and tools available and the results desired. These six tips for successful delegation will help you with employee involvement and employee empowerment as your selected leadership style.

One of the great lessons from Talent IQ is that the performance of talent gone awry is very seriously under-addressed in organizational life. Called “Talent On-the-Bubble,” a pattern of human behavior was identified that can take any organization and its leadership team down if left untended. Talent On-the-Bubble can make a mockery of...

Looking for real management advice about people? You want to create an environment in which people are empowered, productive, and happy. Don't hobble them by limiting their tools or information. Trust them to do the right thing. These are the most important principles for managing people. They reinforce employee empowerment, accomplishment, and...

Employees respond positively to feedback that is provided with the intention of helping the employee succeed. Use these tips to have your desired impact on employee performance.

Looking for quick tips about how to set a positive example for staff members by taking the impact of your role as "boss" seriously? You've found ten tips here.

Heed the advice offered by Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and Stephen Covey. When you begin your new year with solid direction and desired outcomes in mind, you set yourself up for awesome success. The new year is a beginning, so new goals and resolutions fuel your thoughts. These tips will help you achieve your goals...

Want to know how to coach employees so that they succeed in their every day performance? These tips will help you know how to effectively help employees perform and grow.

In a workplace that honors diversity, every person’s politics, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and opinions about non-work issues, should, for the most part stay home. Unless you work in a setting that is dependant on a particular set of beliefs, political discussion potentially causes conflict and hard feelings. Nix politics and political...

What constitutes a hostile work environment? Some employees believe that a bad boss, an unpleasant work environment, or the lack of perks, privileges, benefits, and recognition can create a hostile work environment. But, the reality is that for a workplace to be hostile, certain legal criteria must be met. See what makes up a hostile environment.

Effective performance consulting and training can provide big payoffs for the employer in increased staff productivity, knowledge, loyalty, and contribution. These resources increase your ability to do performance consulting, measure performance improvement, and provide resultant training using internal staff. Increase your self-sufficiency in performance consulting and improvement.

You've worked hard to help a manager with performance improvement, but the manager is failing at your suggestions for performance improvement. At what point do you decide that you’ve had enough? The manager is not improving and, based on your coaching experience, you don’t have faith that they can or will. The manager’s potential to negatively impact other employees and your organization is…

Knowing how to give effective feedback can make or break performance feedback, according to this "Fast Company" article. Good pointers.