Focusing on progress. If you find yourself with an employee struggling with reaching their goals, you may be tempted to pull them over and discuss how they are missing the mark and the related consequences. focusing on the negative aspects will only create more obstacles. Remember the Hierarchy of Needs mentioned earlier? Well, if you start making the coaching session feel more negative, the employee may feel that their job is threatened. If this happens, they will become more fearful and this as to the roadblocks.

Instead of focusing on the negatives focus on the progress. Tell your employee that you see progress and that you believe that they are able to make their goals. Speaking positively expands the employee's belief about themselves. He's encouraging phrases like the ones here. I know you are not quite there yet but you managed to improve this much in such a short amount of time. Your Progress is steady and you're showing promise that you will reach that goal.

You showed definite improvement since our last discussion. I am confident you are going to hit this goal. It is easier to speak into the positive aspects of progress. The benefits of focusing on progress could reap the following. Increased communication between you and your employee, build trust, increase motivation, goal is reached, build good relationship with your employee, employees confidence is boosted. You see if you speak positively then positive things come out.

But if you speak negatively, and then you will get a negative reaction