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Manufacture Your Day by USING POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS

 In Manufacture Your Day

Manufacturing Leadership Training Reinforcement

….and the same is true for people.

When bosses criticize, nag or yell, it is neither reinforcement nor information. It’s unnecessary noise that doesn’t solve anything.

We cannot “make” a person behave better by making them feel worse. Are you following me?

Now that I have your attention, let’s think about why giving and receiving feedback is so important. 

  1. Improvement: help a person to get better from a place of support instead of criticism
  2. Positive Reinforcement (most often overlooked): what behaviours/attitudes/skills does the person already have (no matter how sporadically), which you want to be intensified. Acknowledge and encourage!

Over and over again I meet managers who don’t even know that giving ongoing constructive feedback is a critical part of their job.

If the people on a team don’t perform well, it is a reflection of the leader of the team.

I am not here to judge. I am here to help and I want you to become more aware of what’s happening within your organization / team.

People often become so disengaged because the benefits of the job have become so low that they just try to survive the day, the week, the month.

There are two kinds of reinforcement – positive and negative. Positive reinforcement is focused on what a person wants and negative reinforcement aims at what a person wants to avoid. Having said this, there is a place for both if done correctly.

Today I want to focus on positive reinforcement and here are 3 different areas where you can use it:

  1. In your professional life: Increase the probability that “all the good stuff” keeps recurring because the person is starting to understand what behaviour you truly appreciate.
  2. In your personal life: Instead of complaining what your spouse doesn’t do, why not start praising the positives? The same is true for your children. So incredibly powerful.
  3. Positive self-reinforcement: Yes, it also works on yourself. For example, instead of focusing what you didn’t get done, focus on what you have completed. Pat yourself on the back on a regular basis and see how fast you will start to feel better.

What’s important?

  • Timely – say it when you see it (reinforcement = information): Examples are: sincere praise, a simple “thank you”, words of appreciation, a surprise (i.e. coffee or lunch)
  • Reinforcers are relative, not absolute – you have to know your team members and what’s important to them. Some are happy when you give them time, others when you praise them in front of others, give them individual attention, make them feel important, etc.

Positive reinforcement is important for human relationships. If you have the ability to connect, you will go further faster in life.

 

Food for Thought:

Do you think you reinforce “doing” or “trying” with your team? If you give promises, raises, promotions, gifts, compliments for a behaviour that hasn’t occurred yet, it doesn’t reinforce the desired behaviour.

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