Solving Employee Performance Problems: How to Spot Problems Early, Take Appropriate Action, and Bring Out the Best in Everyone

Introduction

Why is it so difficult for most of us (leaders) to have timely and productive performance conversations? There are lots of reasons— none of them valid.

Leaders tell us that the reasons they don’t have or procrastinate having performance conversations are:

 It is so obvious that the employee must know and should be correcting the problem.

 I don’t have time.

 I tried, and nothing changed.

 I’m not sure what I can and cannot say—my HR rep ...