Tips To Attract and Retain The Best Talent At Your Company

Today’s best managers understand what it takes to attract and retain the best employee talent. Focus on employee careers with the company and not just on employees’ current job. Monitor employee goals and interests and let them know about projects that might help foster their career growth. Provide opportunities for your employees to change and be challenged. Don’t get angry when top performers leave. Instead, let them know that they are encouraged and welcome to return to the company should their new job not work out. Help less-desirable employees find new careers that will benefit you when they leave.

Source: Rice, C. 2008. Retain your best people: Focus on leadership development and results. Leadership Excellence, 25/7, p. 9.

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else.

This book thoroughly examines why some people are world-class performers and the rest are not. The book refutes the idea that natural talent and hard work are required for people to be the best. The book offers the idea of deliberate practice as the way to become a world-class performer for any performance area. Deliberate performance requires a tremendous amount of repetitive practice to develop one’s skills and improve one’s technique. The best performers practice much, much more than lesser performers. The book continuously stresses how much hard work and lack of fun are involved in deliberate practice.

Source: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else.By Geoff Colvin, 2008, Penguin Books, London, ISBN: 978-1-59184-224-8.