The Performance Enhancer You Must Find a Way to Add to Your Process
Those in popular culture talk about illegal performance enhancers all the time. I prefer to talk about the legal performance enhancers instead. Things like self-motivation and having an internal locus of control are two good examples of this.
In addition, another legal performance enhancer you shouldn’t ignore is positive support from friends, family, teachers, mentors, and coaches. It’s a fact that supportive people in your life will boost your performance.
- Stanford University professor Albert Bandura has substantial research on self-efficacy that shows positive communication from trusted sources motivates people to work at a task harder and longer.
- A study done at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania proved that verbal encouragement has profound effects on improving performance.
- Research with the Alabama State Department of Education shows positive reinforcement is paramount. Teachers who use positive reinforcement increase student attendance and learning gains and decrease discipline infractions.
In short, if you need a performance boost one of the first things you should look to do is to add more positive people around you for support.