必背英文面试口语106:你如何激励员工进行改善的?

 　　What type of performance problems have you encountered¹ in people who report to you,and how did you motivate them to improve?

　　在下属的工作表现方面，你曾经遇到过什么问题？后来你又是如何激励他们进行改善的？

　　I once had an employee who was very careless-he made tons of typons on every page of the reports he wrote and also sometimes sent e-mails to the wrong people.

　　我曾经有一位非常粗心大意的员工。他写的报告每一页都有好多处打错的地方，有时发电子邮件还会弄错收件人。

　　One time he sent an e-mail he was supposed to send to a vendor² to our client³!

　　有一次，他还将原本要发给卖方的电子邮件误发给了客户！

　　So I told him to come up with a system that would prevent such careless mistakes.

　　于是，我让他想出一个办法，以防止再犯下这种粗心的错误。

　　He placed a note right on his computer to remind him to double-check the e-mail addresses he was sending messages to.

　　他在电脑上贴了一张便条，提醒自己不要忘记再次确认邮件的收件人是否正确。

　　He also began to review his reports three times instead of just once before he turned them in to me.

　　此外，在将报告交给我之前，他也至少反复看过三次，而不再是只看一次。

　　The number of mistakes was greatly reduced and within an acceptable⁴ range,although he still made mistakes.

　　虽然他还是会犯错误，但是错误的数量已经减少到可以接受的程度了。

　　回答时，应举出具体的例子，说明对工作表现有问题的员工，你是如何激励他们进行改善的。

1 encountered   

adj. 遇到的，遭遇的 动词encounter的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• We encountered a number of difficulties in the first week. 我们在第一周遇到了一些困难。
• The army encountered stiff resistance from rebels in the hills. 部队在山里遭到叛乱者顽强的抵抗。

2 vendor   

n.卖主；小贩

参考例句：

• She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
• He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。

3 client   

n.委托人，当事人，顾客

参考例句：

• She can't come to the telephone;she's serving a client.她不能来接电话，她正在接待一位顾客。
• The lawyer produced a clever defence of his client.律师机智地为委托人辩护。

4 acceptable   

adj.可接受的，合意的，受欢迎的

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• Air pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable levels.这座城市的空气污染程度曾高达可接受标准的四倍。