7 Ways To Improve Employee Performance

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Employee performance is critical to any business. If employees consistently accomplish tasks, reach goals and remain productive, the level of organizational performance goes up. And with it, the profit and shareholder return.Here are some tips that may help improve employee performance:1. Create and properly implement a reward or incentive program. Every company should have such a program. If created and implemented correctly, the reward strategy will certainly help keep employees motivated, emotionally engaged and productive.
2. Always strive to keep the workforce emotionally engaged. High levels of employee engagement lead to higher quantity and quality of results. And you get the bonus of less percentage of attrition and more of your best, most talented employees opting to stay put. One of the ways of keeping employees emotionally engaged is by implementing a reward program that focuses on empowering employees toward achieving their goals, finding value in their skills and knowledge and their goals.
3. Determine which goals and employee performance elements are critical to the company and focus on them when ...
... it comes to creating and implementing a reward program and giving feedback to employees. Try to find corresponding measurable elements that you may be able to include in the reward and training program.
4. Implement a well-planned training program to support the incentive program. A crucial part of the training program is performance tracking and feedback. Feedback should focus on directly observable and, if possible, measurable behavior. And it should be specific. Whenever you are giving feedback, go through the process of the training to make sure you are on the same page with the employees. This process also includes setting goals and discussions on how to improve performance. Feedback, along with training and performance results, should be properly documented. Many companies, particularly the larger ones, opt for an online platform that integrates all these three elements: training, results and feedback. As with the incentive program, the entire process of training and feedback should be transparent and objective.
5. Don’t leave the feedback session without identifying the training needs of the employee. Also, make sure that you are both clear on the criteria for achieving the incentives. Take this opportunity to also discuss the other possible implications of employee performance, which include promotions, bonuses and salary increase. Document the discussion properly.
6. During goal-setting, communicate clearly the standards, meaning of the appraisal results and the expectations. It’s also important to link individual goals to team goals and team goals to the company’s mission and plans. This way, the team and the individual employee will form a clear idea of what they contribute toward achieving the organization’s benchmarks and how they help as the entire organization moves onward to more successes.
7. Form bonds based on shared goals. Let your employees know that you are in the same team and you are united in achieving your goals. Feedback and reviews on employee performance are also more effective if you have a shared emotional investment towards achieving your goals.Audrey is a HR Specialist administering employee performance programs, HR consulting, benefits administration, employee relations, training, recruitment and selection, regulatory compliance and payroll.