Effective Employee handbook
March 2015
Employeers are looking for employees with the personality qualities to become a good worker. A good
worker can organizes their work and makes sure they complete that work. The success of a good worker
will depend on their ability to understand what their employer needs.
An Employer will be looking for an employee who:
Is obsessed with safety.
 Obsessed: To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or
topic.
Encourages positive and constructive discussion – discuss, decide, support.
 Encourage: to motivate somebody to take a course of action or continue doing
something.
Empowers one another and hold one another accountable for delivering results.
 Empower: to give somebody power or authority and to give somebody a greater
sense of confidence or self-esteem
 Accountable: responsible to somebody or for something
Recognizes each other often for their contributions and celebrate both small and large
successes.
 Recognize: to show appreciation of, or give credit to, another's achievement.
 Celebrate: show happiness that something good or special has happened.
 Successes: the achievement of something planned or attempted.
When working with other acts as a team player.
 Act: the action of carrying something out.
 Team: Two or more people organized to function cooperatively as a group.
Quickly recover from mistakes and encourage forward thinking.
 Recover: to a composed state, or make good an error.
 Encourage: to motivate somebody to take a course of action or continue doing
something.
 Forward Thinking: thinking about, planning for, or considering not just the
immediate present but the long-term future
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What would your employee be like for the following characteristics?
Define the qualities of an effective employee that you will include in your employee Handbook.
Make sure you provide full details of what you want in an employee.
Effective
Employee
Assets/Qualities
Define what each quality means.
Provide an example of how an
employee should act in the
workplace.
Where am I currently as an
effective worker?
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Analytical
Thinking:
To brake the situation down to more than one part.
I am good at braking things into more
than one part and explain how to do it.
Capacity for
change:
Influence
Understands there are things you can change and
things you cannot change.
I understand not everything is going to go
the way you want it
the capacity to have an effect on the character or
behavior of someone or something or the effect
itself
When you acknowledge, accept and even
appreciate the difference of cultures
I can handle customers with a bad
behavior and a suborned behavior.
I am a very honest person and I am very
trust worthy
Dedication
The quality of being honest and having strong
moral principles
Relating the moral principles or the branch of
knowledge dealing with these
Committed to a task or purpose.
Equality
State of being equal
Not everyone is equal and that’s okay in
most situations
Humility
Modest or low view of one’s own importance
Openness
Obstructions to passage or view
Visionary
Planning the future with immigration or wisdom
Creativity
Use of the imagination or original ideas
Fairness
Conformity with rules or standards
Recognition
Action or process or recognizing or being
recognized
Engagement
Communication
An arrangement to do something or go somewhere
at a certain time
Imparting or exchanging of information or news
Assertiveness
Aggressive self-assurance
Motivation
To reasons one has for acting or behaving in a
particular way
The way on which one acts or conducts oneself.
Culture
Awareness:
Integrity
Ethical
Behavior
Attitude
A sense of humor
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A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone
or something.
The ability to perceive humor or appreciate a joke.
I think everyone should be treated the
same.
I am able to image what I want to do in
the near future
I am able to used my imagination in many
different ways, even though some things
are difficult I still do my best to work
through them
I am comfortable with all different types of
rules because every company has
different ones.
I am recognized when I do something
over and above and my bosses hear
about it.
I have engagement and I am able to
make arrangements and show up early.
I am not shy and I am able to
communicate with new people
I have friends and family that keep me
motivated and make it so that I work hard
I have a good behavior and I listen to
people that need me to do something
Evan if I am upset or angry at someone I
don’t show it.
I am able to take a joke and not think
everyone is always serious.
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Dedication
Empower
Creativity
Equality
A Good
Employee
Visionary
Integrity
Ethical
Openness
Humility
MY PERSONAL GOALS FOR EMPLOYMENT
The following personal goals will enhance my ability to improve how I am
as an effective employee.
1.______________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________________________
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