Improving the Performance of Facilitator through Individual Characteristic and Motivation in Development of Empowerment Teacher and Education Personnel (P4TK) Bandung – Indonesia

P4TK-IPA, is an institution that provides facilities in carrying out the improvement of competence of educators and educational personnel. In carrying out the activities of the education and training needs to have the right strategy and achieve the targets in the human resources development component in particular for facilitators as part of government bureaucracy in educational institutions and training. As a functional staff or facilitator in carrying out education, teaching and training must show high performance, given the duties and responsibilities that are quite heavy in organizing training, teaching and education. This study aims to analyze the improvement of facilitator performance through individual characteristics and motivation, methods used in quantitative methods, types of descriptive and verification research with the aim of knowing and analyzing the situation and the influence of individual characteristic variables and motivation on the performance of facilitators. Collecting data through observation, questionnaires, and documentation of data, with respondents as many as 52 respondents, the analysis used is path analysis. The results of the study conclude that there are simultaneously significant effects of individual characteristics and motivations on the performance of facilitators. There is a partial positive and significant effect of each variable on individual characteristics and motivation on the performance of the facilitator. Keywords—individual characteristics; motivation; performance of the facilitator