Improve employee performance

clipped from www.3ctraining.co.uk Focus on strengths not weaknesses At a conference I attended recently, research from the American Evaluation Society showed that: Focusing on error correction DECREASES performance by 68% Focusing on continuous improvement INCREASES performance by 81% Learning and Development devotes much of its time (and rightly so) to trying to improve people's performance. However, if the underlying message of L&D activity is that you must pay attention to the things you aren't good at, that is precisely what will happen: all the employee's energy will be focused in an area where they don't perform well. Hence overall performance will decrease. If we focus on what people do well, and how they can improve it , then all energy is focused on improving performance leading to an overall increase in results. Take your good people, identify what they are REALLY good at, and put some resources into making them THE BEST in that area, and you will find that, overall, performance rises and rises.