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Stimulate your visual learners

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, April 30, 2008

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Nurse managers must realize that although most employees possess great abilities, they may not work up to them, most often due to lack of motivation. The success or failure of the manager is partly determined by the presence of, or lack of, a highly motivated workforce. As a coach, use the following ideas to create a positive work environment where employees are motivated and successful:

1. Express confidence in the employees' ability to measure up to their jobs. Most people need to hear expressions of a job well done.
2. Find the reasons for which an employee is not doing his or her job well and ask what is preventing him or her from mastering the job. Sometimes an employee will express to you that the job is boring and no longer a challenge. This is your chance to show the employee that the job is essential to the total operation of the organization. Also indicate that a job well done could lead to a more challenging job opportunity.
3. Review job fundamentals to build self-confidence. Help employees feel they can do the job well and better than anyone else. Stress the importance of taking time to do the job accurately and in the proper sequence.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course "Nursing CE Series: Leadership and Coaching Skills for Nurse Managers." Check out this course and other online courses!

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