Leadership Coaching Boost The Potential Of High Achievers

Make The Best Of The Boon

Your team members were hired because of their skills, abilities and competence. As an effective leader, one of your main tasks is to capitalize on and leverage the uniqueness of your people. The same goes for high achievers in your workplace. You need to boost and make the most of the boon high achievers can be to your business. You will want to grow and retain your high performing employees.

First thing you have to know are their characteristics. High performers are not like everybody else. They have distinct likeable and unlikeable traits. High achievers are more revved up for work. They have more hype in their respective skills and abilities and are therefore unique. You have to know the right combination of wind and sail to get high achievers to sail on smoothly or glide in still or rough waters. Give them the right push and they can bring accolades to your company.

Get To Know Their Characteristics

As a leader, be aware that a high achiever is different. It takes a different kind of oil to grease them, and you have to know the right kind.

A fundamental role for you as a leader is to have honest and open communication to people who can be significant assets to your business. What are their strong and weak points? What motivates them to optimize their capabilities? It's basically knowing what the right buttons are to push to amp up the high achiever's performance. This is how you get real results from high performing employees. But this is just one part of the package. The other part is the downsides, which you as a leader have to manage and adjust effectively.

Tips On How To Manage High Achievers In The Workplace

    Allow them to expand. That is, let them run and exceed the limits. High performing workers tend to go beyond boundaries. Note that these employees do not typically respond to a controlled process.
    Provide challenges to boost their skills. Give opportunities for high performing employees to stretch. Make their tasks a bit more challenging. These people actually like stimulation because they often get bored with usual, ordinary tasks. They are enthused to learn more and discover. Provide incentives and rewards when they excel.
    Understand and adjust to their needs. Provide tasks and avenues that encourage high performers to express their creativity and innovativeness. You might even consider to give them more complex jobs or some problems to solve. High achieving employees are apt to easily get bored so utilize their added energy to benefit your business.


 By Mike Krutza