6 Ways To Keep Your Top Performers
Your top performers will set the benchmark for how you lead your team. Top performers can actually be the most challenging people to lead, because they want to be the best.
Other team members may sit back and just do their job without much of a fuss. Your top performers will want to be challenged and to be learning constantly. Top performers understand that if they aren’t growing, they’re falling behind.
If you don’ retain your top performers, you will fall behind too. Note that this doesn’t apply only to line managers. If you lead projects or use the services of other teams in your organization, you need to take care of the top performers there, too.
Provide top performers with variety
Varying the tasks that you give your high performers will go a long way in keeping them happy. While some people are happy doing the same thing every day, many top performers will not be.
The only caution here is to ensure that while providing variety, you need to ensure that your best people are still doing work relevant to their job description. If you get your best people to work on tasks that aren’t really within their chosen role, they may become disengaged.
While skill variety in a role is positive, the skills must still be relevant. If the variety is so broad so as not to contribute to the employee’s desired skillset, then it will be seen as wasted effort. It’s like being provided with training for skills that you never use. It’s pointless.