Performance Discussion Of Coaching And Counseling

                  Coaching and Counseling Name Institutional Affiliation     Coaching and Counseling Managing employee productivity and performance presents one of the most difficult challenges for the managers. The success of an organization is dependent on the individual performance of each employee, hence the need to ensure that the employees’ productivity remains high. Counseling and coaching are some of the strategies used to assess and address employee performance. Counseling focuses on improving employee performance. In cases where an employee is not performing according to the set targets, counseling may be used prior to initiating any corrective or administrative action against the employee. Counseling entails meeting with the employee to clarify the performance expectations as well as determine the barriers that are preventing the employee from achieving them (University of Notre Dame, 2018). The meeting with the employee is viewed as developmental other than punitive. A suitable scenario where counseling is an appropriate strategy is in a case of a sales employee who is not meeting the sales targets. Such an employee is performing below the expectations and ...