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Hub You - A Positive Approach to Employee Performance Improvement Through Discipline
Studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs possess these characteristics:1. Self-confidenceThis is that magical power of having confidence in oneself and in one's powers and abilities.2. Achievement OrientedResults are gained by focused and sustained effort. They concentrate on achieving a specific goal, not just accomplishing a string of unrelated tasks.3. Risk TakerThey realize that there is a chance of loss inherent in achieving their goals, yet they have the confidence necessary to take calculated risks to achieve their goals.Entrepreneurs are people who will make decisions, take action, and think that they can control their own destinies. They are often motivated by a spirit of independence which leads them to believe that their success depends on raw effort and hard work, not luck.So which of th
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
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But today, a growing number of companies are moving away from using a criminal-justice mentality for employee performance improvement through corrective action. They are abandoning traditional approaches that focus exclusively on punishment. Instead, they are adopting an approach of accountability - employees with unfavorable performance, conduct or attendance issues are required to take personal responsibility for their choice of behavior.
Discipline and Recognition
One immediate difference is that traditional, punishment-based discipline systems ignore the great majority of people who never create disciplinary problems. In a non-punitive, “Discipline Without Punishment” approach, there’s a new step added to the process — a positive contact. Just as the policy is expected to resolve employee problems when they arise, it also makes clear that supervisors are expected to recognize employees when they perform well.
Recognizing good performance is no longer just good advice handed out in a management training class. Now it’s a formal policy requirement, a step of the organization’s overall discipline procedure.
Diffusing Problems
Supervisors continue to be responsible for beginning the correction process by employee coaching prior to formal disciplinary action. The exception is when the magnitude of the behavior warrants serious disciplinary action or even termination for a first offense.
In the early stages of disciplinary action, the Discipline Without Punishment approach replaces the familiar responses of verbal reprimands and written warnings with two comparable steps toward employee performance improvement: Reminder 1 and Reminder 2. Yes, they seem similar, but there’s more than mere semantic sleight-of-hand at work here.
Instead of being reprimanded for his mischief or warned about what will happen the next time he misbehaves, the employee is formally reminded of two important things. First, he’s reminded of the organization’s exact expectations of high-quality work, on-time performance, or whatever else has triggered the need for the discussion. And second, he is reminded that he has a responsibility for meeting the organization’s standards – he must do what he’s being paid to do and he must do it well.
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
Many people have the dream of making money on the Internet, yet few manage to eek out more than a few dollars doing so. As someone who has made a substantial portion of my revenue from product sales both on and offline, I can tell you there is more to generating revenues than one might imagine.It never ceases to amaze me the misconceptions people have. They fall for the mistaken belief that all they have to do is have a website, post a few products, get site visitors and the rest takes care of itself. Nothing could be further from the truth.I have witnessed some of the most common reasons people will NOT succeed on the Internet, let alone in their business. Sure, they may get by, but most people want to do more than just get by.There are always a few people not yet making money who moan and groan about how they want the “real secrets.” There
Discipline and Recognition
One immediate difference is that traditional, punishment-based discipline systems ignore the great majority of people who never create disciplinary problems. In a non-punitive, “Discipline Without Punishment” approach, there’s a new step added to the process — a positive contact. Just as the policy is expected to resolve employee problems when they arise, it also makes clear that supervisors are expected to recognize employees when they perform well.
Recognizing good performance is no longer just good advice handed out in a management training class. Now it’s a formal policy requirement, a step of the organization’s overall discipline procedure.
Diffusing Problems
Supervisors continue to be responsible for beginning the correction process by employee coaching prior to formal disciplinary action. The exception is when the magnitude of the behavior warrants serious disciplinary action or even termination for a first offense.
In the early stages of disciplinary action, the Discipline Without Punishment approach replaces the familiar responses of verbal reprimands and written warnings with two comparable steps toward employee performance improvement: Reminder 1 and Reminder 2. Yes, they seem similar, but there’s more than mere semantic sleight-of-hand at work here.
Instead of being reprimanded for his mischief or warned about what will happen the next time he misbehaves, the employee is formally reminded of two important things. First, he’s reminded of the organization’s exact expectations of high-quality work, on-time performance, or whatever else has triggered the need for the discussion. And second, he is reminded that he has a responsibility for meeting the organization’s standards – he must do what he’s being paid to do and he must do it well.
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
This week I spent a few hours with a highly successful CEO discussing his brand identity questions and concerns. “What do the most successful brand initiatives have in common?” he asked. I shared an observation with him based on many years of having similar conversations and being involved in successful (and not so successful) branding programs.There are a lot of reasons to embark on a major corporate branding program, but from the point of view of a CEO, most of them are simply not compelling. For many years I have watched marketers and design managers struggle to get large scale identity programs funded and supported by senior-most management. Even though there are clear breakdowns caused by the existing identity systems and designers believe they are presenting a clear, rational justification for investment…their attempts are rebuffed more often than a
Recognizing good performance is no longer just good advice handed out in a management training class. Now it’s a formal policy requirement, a step of the organization’s overall discipline procedure.
Diffusing Problems
Supervisors continue to be responsible for beginning the correction process by employee coaching prior to formal disciplinary action. The exception is when the magnitude of the behavior warrants serious disciplinary action or even termination for a first offense.
In the early stages of disciplinary action, the Discipline Without Punishment approach replaces the familiar responses of verbal reprimands and written warnings with two comparable steps toward employee performance improvement: Reminder 1 and Reminder 2. Yes, they seem similar, but there’s more than mere semantic sleight-of-hand at work here.
Instead of being reprimanded for his mischief or warned about what will happen the next time he misbehaves, the employee is formally reminded of two important things. First, he’s reminded of the organization’s exact expectations of high-quality work, on-time performance, or whatever else has triggered the need for the discussion. And second, he is reminded that he has a responsibility for meeting the organization’s standards – he must do what he’s being paid to do and he must do it well.
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
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Instead of being reprimanded for his mischief or warned about what will happen the next time he misbehaves, the employee is formally reminded of two important things. First, he’s reminded of the organization’s exact expectations of high-quality work, on-time performance, or whatever else has triggered the need for the discussion. And second, he is reminded that he has a responsibility for meeting the organization’s standards – he must do what he’s being paid to do and he must do it well.
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
It seem that the only time people are open to change is when what they have always done no longer works for them. In other words when our needs are no longer being met by previous behaviors, thought patterns or procedures.Your task as a CEO or manager is to show your staff that this applies to your business as well. When certain procedures and practices no longer meet the needs of your business or organization change is needed.To facilitate this change you must show respect for both the needs of the business and employees. When your business needs for increased efficiency, profitability and productivity take priority over the needs of your staff you are bound to increase stress and create resistance to any proposed change. There must be a balance between the two.Here are thirteen suggestions to help you bring about change without sending
The Last Chance
The biggest change from the traditional, punishment-based approach comes at the final step of disciplinary action. When the employee is one step away from termination, a dramatic gesture is needed to forcefully drive home the message that the end is at hand — one more time and you’re fired. But merely giving the employee a “final written warning,” or placing her on probation for some period of time, or creating a employee performance improvement plan aren’t powerful enough to clearly communicate the message “Once more and you’re out!” That’s why a disciplinary suspension from work is the best final step for a corrective action system.
Withholding Pay Does Not Work
traditionally, this disciplinary suspension has been without pay. The intent is that by depriving the employee of pay, he will come to his senses and return to work determined to do whatever is necessary to keep his job.
But the theory rarely works in practice. Employees who are placed on a three-day disciplinary suspension without pay don’t often return having seen the error of their ways and a commitment to excellent performance. They usually come back angry, all the organization has accomplished is creating a bitter employee.
There are other problems with using punishment as the basis for disciplinary action. Supervisors, many of whom are in the tricky position of being both on-the-job boss as well as off-the-job friend, often hesitate to place friends on an unpaid disciplinary suspension. Because they know the family is also getting punished by the loss of pay, they may cut their people more slack and open themselves to charges of favoritism. And suspensions without pay just aren’t appropriate for exempt, knowledge-worker individuals.
A Paid Disciplinary Suspension
A “Decision Making Leave,” the final step of the responsibility-based Discipline Without Punishment process, provides all of the advantages of a disciplinary suspension as a final step and eliminates the drawbacks. This disciplinary suspension with a twist suspends the individual for one day and one day only. On this day, the employee is required to make one of two choices: correct whatever problem brought him to this final step of the discipline process and make a commitment to fully acceptable performance in every area of his job in the future, or decide to quit and find greener employment pastures elsewhere.
Paying the employee for the day he’s away on “decision day” changes the supervisor’s role from adversary to coach. It demonstrates the organization’s good faith in wanting to see him change and return to fully acceptable performance, and is consistent with the values of almost every organization. By eliminating money as an issue, it doesn’t impact the family’s grocery budget and thus reduces the possibility of anger, hostility and even workplace violence.
Agreed Accountability
If the employee decides to remain with the organization and commits to fully acceptable performance in every area of the job (as almost all people placed on decision making leave do) and then doesn’t live up to his commitment, termination turns out to be much easier and guilt-free.
And should the employee challenge the termination in an EEOC complaint, unemployment hearing, or any other venue, the fact that the organization gave the person a day at its expense to decide whether he was willing to do then j
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