Fierce Resource: Don’t Forget the Positive

This week’s Fierce resource was originally published on trainingindustry.com and explains how positive feedback can increase employee engagement and productivity.Whether you are a new or experienced manager, your main focus is coaching your team to success. In reality, your day-to-day gets taken up by attending meetings, putting out fires, and sifting through an endless stream of e-mails. With so little time left over, it can be easy to just focus on the performance gaps that will prevent your team from hitting their goals.But Don’t Forget the Positive finds the effects of not giving feedback can be just as detrimental to your team. If you fail to reinforce positive behaviors, you may find them slowly disappearing over time.What behavior should you be reinforcing?“In this fast-paced world, thought should be given to providing positive feedback as well as the feedback used to correct undesirable behavior. This positive feedback shouldn’t be reserved for one-on-one meetings with employees. Positive feedback should also be given in the moment it is observed. When this happens, managers can be assured that they are balancing their efforts to coach their team to success.”Read the article.

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