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Tip of the month: Start the New Year with focused, motivated employees (continue reading below).
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New article: Effective meetings strengthen relations, performance - Dec 2011 NE Dairy Business magazine
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New article: 最新中文文章 Article in Chinese - About feeding management - China Dairy magazine
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have" - Thomas Jefferson
Start the New Year with focused, motivated employees
The New Year is here! Have you taken time of your busy schedule to meet with your team leaders, supervisors, and middle managers to define this year’s performance expectations and goals? Also, this would be a good time to do an individual performance review and discuss opportunities for growth.
Discuss overall goals and expectations for your dairy first and then discuss specific goals for each area within the dairy that each one of your leaders/supervisors is responsible for. Discuss what needs to be done to achieve those goals, have them participate on that discussion, and finally develop a plan with your team on how to get there.
Finally, have your leaders convey these goals to the rest of the workforce. This can have a tremendous impact in people’s will to excel (motivation) and will help them stay focus on the tasks that will lead to high performance.
Also, if you didn’t do a performance evaluation with each of your leaders yet, this might be the time to do it. I always recommend using the Negotiated Performance Appraisal (NPA) developed by Dr. Gregorio Billikopf. Unlike the traditional approach, the NPA can help you jointly develop a plan for performance expectations and improvement with each employee. It will also allow you to plan on how to achieve those goals individually with each one of your team leaders. For more information on the NPA read my article from NE Dairy Business magazine called “A useful appraisal tool”.
The negotiated performance appraisal can be a great tool to use once or twice per year as a coaching tool with your employees. You will be able to improve people’s skills, define goals and expectations for them, and develop a succession plan for your operation with your key employees. Read more
Felix Soriano, MS, PAS
President
