Our reader ballot in the present day asks: How fearful are you of dropping your high-performers to different corporations?
- Extraordinarily – their departure could be devastating 9.28%
- Very – I’d hate to lose them and it will be arduous to switch them 51.00%
- Considerably – it will harm however I can backfill for them 27.15%
- Not very – they’re all going to depart in some unspecified time in the future anyway 7.28%
- By no means – I’ve a whole lot of expertise ready to step into their position 5.29%
Construct Your Bench. 87% of you’ve vital fears of dropping your excessive performers to different organizations. You possibly can attempt to maintain them however it doesn’t matter what, you’re going to lose a few of them. You possibly can’t management that. What you’ll be able to management is ensuring your different crew members are able to step into the emptiness. Ship them to coaching. Give them stretch assignments. Put them on initiatives that may problem them and assist them construct each skills and confidence. Positive, these actions have a price and it’s important to take some threat that issues received’t go completely. The profit is you’re constructing a bench of expertise that shall be higher ready to step into the inevitable vacancies created when your excessive performers go away.
– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC
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These outcomes had been initially a SmartPulse ballot in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks suggestions from greater than 240,000 enterprise leaders. Get smarter on management and join the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.