Top Performing Employees in a Challenging Economy

For many companies, layoffs and budget cuts have resulted in increased workloads, longer hours and an increased need for everyone in an organization to work together and be held accountable. Maureen Ennis, TAB business coach, recently posted a discussion about this topic and the importance of always being held accountable:

“I recently read an article by Bruce Caris, my TAB colleague. He commented that in the current economic downturn there has been a lot of concern regarding how to make sure employees are held accountable and only top performers remain with the company. In reality, it takes the same level of attention regardless of economic conditions.

Bruce suggests these four principles to create an environment of motivated, high performing employees:

1. Mutual understanding and alignment of expectations
2. Feedback on performance”

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