How to Help Subordinates Improve Performance

Author: Zhu Yi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: How can enterprises effectively carry out the management of mentorship, guidance, and support? As the saying goes in China, "Teaching someone to fish is better than teaching them to fish," which requires managers at all levels to care for, help, and support their subordinates in their work. They should excel in passing on management skills, assisting with performance improvement, and guiding daily tasks. In line with the principle of mutual learning, they should teach work methods, handling methods, and leadership skills. Experienced colleagues with years of management expertise can consciously share their accumulated management experience with new employees in practice. Managers can also conduct specific mentorship, guidance, and support work through tasks and responsibilities in practice, contributing their best to the sustainable, rapid, and healthy development of the enterprise.
This book is the second volume of the Mentorship, Guidance, and Support series. In the entire process of helping subordinates improve their performance, the author elaborates on subordinate performance management in four parts.
1. Three prerequisites for improving subordinate performance. This explores the preliminary work necessary for helping subordinates improve their performance from three levels: motivating subordinates, improving performance methods, and performance management plans.
2. The foundation of performance evaluation. First, clarify information such as the purpose of the position, job responsibilities, and job content, as this information serves as the basic basis for the organization's performance appraisal.
3. Performance evaluation and performance discussions. This helps everyone understand that the purpose of performance management is not for evaluation, but evaluation is for the sake of making performance management better. Performance evaluation should identify and improve problems, making it a shared opportunity for managers and subordinates.
4. Performance coaching and consultation. This explains that a coach must be an excellent instructor and a person with leadership qualities, then how to carry out performance coaching, and the differences between coaching and consultation.