How to Encourage Excellent Work from People

If you are in a position of supervision, you want your staff to produce the best work they can. Here's how to encourage them in their endeavors.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

How to Encourage Excellent Work From People

1. Be a good example. You should do your work from an organized and systematic base. You should also work cheerfully as much as is possible

2. People work differently, and each person may have one particular thing they do well. Not all jobs are amenable to using a person's specific talents, but try to as much as possible. Perhaps May is a really good interviewer, but Charles is excellent at documentation. If possible team them up so May does the interviews and Charles does the documentation.

3. When there are changes, labor disputes or other unexpected traumas in the work place, people need to vent. Rather than allowing them to vent all over the place, have a meeting where they can share their concerns and frustrations. Do not allow any blame laying or personal attacks. Do not allow anyone to be right or wrong, but only to express their concerns in a open and accepting forum. Make sure the people in the meeting understand the ground rules before the meeting gets under way.

4. Give people the opportunity to give input on potential ways to get the work done more efficiently. You are a leader not a controller. Give credit to the person who had the idea. Happy, respected people produce excellent work.

Tips & Warnings

• Make a habit of praise.
• Do not show favoritism.
• Allow creative thinking and brainstorming.
• There are always those people who are really good at whatever task given to them. Do not give in to the temptation to give them all the best assignments.
• Divide the work fairly and evenly.

[GuaLita]

on 11/2/2008 So true, I know some people who never show any appreciation to anyone, I really don't like to do anything for them only the ones that do show appreciation.