improve performance

Meaning

This phrase means to make someone or something work better, faster, or more efficiently. In business, it is used to talk about increasing the output or quality of employees, teams, software, or machinery.

Examples

• The new training program is designed to improve performance across the sales team.

  The new training program is designed to improve performance across the sales team.

• Regular feedback sessions can help employees improve performance over time.

  Regular feedback sessions can help employees improve performance over time.

• We upgraded our servers to improve performance and reduce loading times.

  We upgraded our servers to improve performance and reduce loading times.

• The company set clear KPIs to monitor and improve performance.

  The company set clear KPIs to monitor and improve performance.

• To improve performance, we need to eliminate unnecessary administrative tasks.

  To improve performance, we need to eliminate unnecessary administrative tasks.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ The training will make our performance better.

  ✓ The training will improve performance.

  While 'make performance better' is grammatically correct, 'improve performance' is the standard, professional collocation in business.

• ✗ We need to improve the performance of our workers.

  ✓ We need to improve employee performance.

  Using 'employee performance' or 'team performance' sounds much more professional and respectful than referring to people as 'workers' in a mechanical way.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Upgrading the office computers will definitely ___.

  💡 make things work faster and better

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  improve performance

• Our main goal this quarter is to ___ of the customer service department.

  💡 boost the efficiency and results

  Show answer

  improve performance