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title: "Are You Contributing to Your Employees’ Worst Habits?"
url: https://thecoreresults.com/are-you-contributing-to-your-employees-worst-habits/
description: "How management signals and inconsistent feedback can reinforce the wrong workplace habits."
published: 2018-09-01
updated: 2018-09-01
---

# Are You Contributing to Your Employees’ Worst Habits?

Published 2018-09-01

Performance field note

1 September 2018 · Performance

Workplace habits are shaped by more than individual motivation. Employees also respond to what managers notice, reward, ignore and repeatedly request.

## Look at the system around the behavior

When a poor habit persists, examine the expectations and feedback surrounding it. A manager may unintentionally reward speed over accuracy, activity over outcomes or short-term recovery over a repeatable process.

Specific competency language helps reveal that mismatch. It allows a coach to name the behavior, explain its impact and define what better work looks like.