7 Practical Proven Actions To Improve Your Worst Employee Quickly

Every team has a worst employee. When you improve your worst employee, you increase overall team performance, usually by a lot more than the contribution of one person.

Any manager with people skills can improve their worst team member. You just need to know what to do and take action.

I share 7 practical proven actions to improve your worst team member quickly

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One of the most important tactics to handle your worst employee is to not ignore the problems, especially when they are relatively minor. Problems get worse over time if left alone. Problems are much easier to fix before behaviour patterns become established.

How to handle low performers or those missing your expectations starts with understanding what is holding them back or causing them to be your worst performer. This is a really important step to do well.

Another key step in how to handle the worst performer in your team is to ask yourself “Is their potential worth developing?” Will the effort you put in to improve them be worth the gains you get or are they a lost case?

The next steps in what to do about low performers is set out your expectations. This is not talking about a bunch of financial targets. Setting expectations well is not easy and I share tips on how to set expectations quickly and effectively.

Next in how to handle your worst employee, give them lots of direct and honest feedback. Comments like “Good job” or “well done” or “work harder” do not count as useful feedback.

If you want o give your worst team member a realistic chance of improving, you must help them improve.

Finally, if you don’t get improvement after trying to help them, or they are not putting in the effort, you must remove them from your team – into a more suitable job or out of the company.

If you have any questions on “7 Practical Proven Actions To Improve Your Worst Employee Quickly”, please email me at [e-mail] and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

enhance.training