title: How to improve the performance of a good medical practice team: twelve techniques.
abstract: It is incredibly easy to ignore the medical practice team that is doing a good job. However, when we allow good performers to continue as they are, they probably won't improve. Their performance may even worsen. This is unfortunate because with a little bit of effort and support, good performers can often learn to excel. This article offers 12 techniques medical practice managers can use to bring their team members from good performance to excellent. It describes how to use goal-setting, work assignments, modeling, confidence building, team retreats, rewards, incentives, and reinforcement to ratchet up a good medical practice team's performance. This article also identifies the signs of medical employee mediocrity. It describes why setting higher expectations of your medical practice employees will ultimately improve their performance. Finally, this article suggests 10 practical and affordable strategies that medical practice managers can use to reinforce excellent performance in their good employees.
authors.affiliation: Blue Pencil Institute. Ihills@bluepencilinstitute.com
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hills
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D012201:Reward; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States