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“Predicting the future is easy.
It's trying to figure out what's going
on now that's hard.”
Fritz Dressler
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Ways to Motivate High Performers
Motivating your employees can be challenging.
However, a supervisor can create a motivating work atmosphere. The EPPRR
initiation, reviews, and close-out sessions can be the starting points for
several formal and informal ways to motivate employees. Some items to consider
are:
Discuss what work-related projects the employee would like to tackle.
- Involve them in writing their Critical Results and selecting the appropriate
Performance Indicators so they have a sense of ownership.
- Relate the employee's work to the bigger picture.
- Provide timely feedback.
- Collaborate with the employee to develop an Individual Development
Plan (IDP) or Individual Training Plan (ITP).
- Provide timely equitable and consistent recognition through the awards
process.
- Ask employees how they would like to be rewarded.
Time off, thank you notes, informal and non-monetary recognition, and
On-The-Spot awards, career-enhancing details and training opportunities,
may be motivating as indicators of your appreciation for the quality work
the employee does and support of their work effort and contribution to
the organization.
Quality Step Increase (QSI) advances the employee’s scheduled within-grade
increases. The standard for awarding a QSI is that the employee surpasses
every Critical Result. One way to illustrate that an employee surpassed
expectation for a Critical Result is to describe how they went beyond
the expected Performance Indicators for that Critical Result, that performance
is exceptional in quality, quantity, and timeliness.
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