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Here’s How to Tell Someone Their Work Is Sloppy (and Actually Get Them to Change Their Ways)

By | Alyse Kalish | www.themuse.com

You’re a hard worker. You like things to be done on time, and done well. To you, it’s a small ask.

So when someone you work with keeps turning in unfinished reports or sloppy pieces of work, it really grinds your gears.

Not only that, it affects everything else you do. That subpar assignment might mean you push back an important deadline, or piss off a client, or lose out on the respect of the rest of the company. Basically, this person’s mess-up costs you, and everyone around you, a lot.

Sitting down someone who’s turning in low quality work and giving them a talking to isn’t how most people like to spend their days. But it’s important to do respectfully and in a timely manner, if you care about your and your team’s success.

Muse career coach Eilis Wasserman emphasizes that there “isn’t one right way to do this.” But one rule of thumb is that “if you are not the supervisor and it affects your work, then bring it up to your supervisor first” before trying to tackle it yourself. Having the feedback come from a higher-up gives it more weight, and can feel more natural than when it comes from a co-worker of the same level. Plus, if your supervisor manages your co-worker too, they will be more familiar with the person’s work ethic, history, and day-to-day responsibilities and thus will be better able to come up with a solution.

But let’s say you’re the supervisor and you’re confronted with less-than-stellar performance from an employee—or you’re an employee who can’t count on your manager to do the work for you. Here are some tips for handling this conversation with ease.

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