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You’ve Got More of Them Than You Think
It’s Friday afternoon at 4pm. You’re handed a project due Monday morning and you need help completing it. Who do you turn to first, your high performers, or your low performers? Your high performers, of course. When another crisis happens next week, who do you turn to? How about the week after that? You get the picture.
We turn to our high performers over and over again. We abuse them and we burn them out, especially on work that doesn’t require their level of talent.
Meanwhile there’s a whole group of B players sitting there, untapped and thinking about how awful a job it must be to be a high performer. They see high performers as being overworked and always stressed, sending emails at 2am and working on weekends. They think to themselves, “Who wants that kind of life?”
Share the Load
In order to retain your high performers and uncover the potential of your average performers, you must share the workload with the middle. Encourage them to believe that they’re capable of doing better work. When a manager can say to an average performer, “I believe in you and I know you’re a high performer”, their confidence and performance skyrocket. As they step into their new role, they realize that being a high performer isn’t so bad.
You have a lot more high performers sitting in your workforce than you think. It’s time to tap into that potential. Join us for our webinar, Turning Middle Performers Into Stars, and learn how to maximize those talents.
As Leadership IQ’s Director of Idea Development, Kim is responsible for evangelizing the company’s research, training and leadership insights to attract more participants in research projects and online education. As both strategist and implementer, Kim expands the usefulness of the company’s proprietary research into leadership content for all sections of the website, including the company's blog, white papers, email newsletters and social media connections.
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