Every manager wants to keep their high performing staff longer. High performing employees deliver a lot more value for relatively little more in pay. Keep enough high performers in your team, manage them well and you are nearly guaranteed at least good team performance. 

I share 5 actions to keep high performing staff longer 

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How to keep high performers starts with your approach and attitude towards them. Treating your high performing staff as partners will

1.      Make them feel more valued and appreciated

2.      You will utilise more of their talents 

3.      The right mindset will create more development opportunities for them

4.      They will get more autonomy and responsibility from a partnership approach

 Plus you and they get a ton more benefits. You want to get the most you can from your best staff so cultivate a great partnership mindset from the start. 

Next, proactively create good development opportunities for your high performers at work. This is easy to say yet quite a bit harder to do in practice. I share the 5 best ways I have come across for getting the most high-value development to your high performers in the workplace.

Third, provides lots of honest and structure feedback to your high performance individuals. High performers want to know what they are not doing well probably more than what they are doing well. Learn tips on giving corrective feedback without offending and how much positive feedback is needed to keep high performing employees happy. 

Another massive motivator for high performing staff is minimising distractions and pain points which reduce their output and annoy them. This is an essential priority to create high performing teams. Learn about how to mitigate 4 common problems that always come up in nearly every company that such time and motivation from team members and particularly the high performing staff. 

Lastly, pay your high performing staff well. There are common barriers to paying enough salary in practice to make moving more difficult for high performers. Learn how to overcome these issues without causing problems in the rest of the team. 

The actions to keep high performing staff for longer must not annoy or upset the rest of the team. Getting the right balance is really important. Learn how to do this. 

If you have any questions on “5 Actions To Keep High Performing Staff Longer”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you. 

Jess Coles

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