Can you easily identify your top performing talent?
Hint: It mightn’t be as straightforward as reviewing best job performance ratings.
If you’re looking for staff to promote, or simply ensure retention, you also need to look out for various key characteristics and behaviours.
Carefully distinguishing whether your employees are ‘high performing’ or ‘high potential’ is imperative. While the two terms seem to be linked, understanding what separates them is often the difference between a manager who's able to build a successful team and one who struggles to motivate and retain valuable employees. Knowing this difference can assist your company in identifying employees for advancement.
So, what is a high performer? High performers are extremely good at their job, are reliable, and will always do what is expected. However, they’re also less interested in moving up the corporate ladder - and more interested in maintaining the great results they produce every day.
On the other hand, high potentials are future leaders and go above and beyond what is expected of them. They share the same characteristics of high performers when it comes to delivering high quality results, but try to understand the business on a deeper level, take initiative and seek self-improvement.
Identifying your top performers and potential future leaders is invaluable to any business. Leaders will effectively guide a team, have the ability to work autonomously, and will pave the way for their colleagues by setting new standards of exceptional behavior and outstanding productivity.
High performers possess a number of the following qualities:
In summary, it’s beneficial for organisations to identify these qualities to seek out their top performers. Not all employees are highly driven, goal seekers or achievement oriented. Once you establish the potential in employees, you can maximise this resource to give your firm a distinct competitive advantage.
The next challenge will be how to engage, retain, and encourage further development. You can read more about how to be more proactive in engaging your talent here.
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