From the course: Managing High Performers
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Understand their expectations
From the course: Managing High Performers
Understand their expectations
- If we want high performers to continue delivering great results, we need to understand and work to meet their often unspoken expectations. We'll look at four common expectations you might discover when managing high performers. First, they expect challenging work. High performers are driven and ambitious, natural problem solvers. So they expect to spend their days working on projects that are interesting and diverse, doing things that make good use of their considerable talents. They actually crave the juicy, complex jobs that really tap in to all of their areas of expertise. They also expect to work for someone who is willing to delegate some of the meatier, high-level initiatives. If their managers hoard all the good projects for themselves, high performers may think about going somewhere with better opportunities. Second, they expect to be set up for success. High performers want to be cut loose to do what they do best, but they also want enough support so they don't get bogged…
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