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What happens when you invest only in your High potential (HIPO) employees ?

They stay motivated and ensure your team performs and you get the results and they, you and your team continues to grow.

What happens when your high potential employees move out?

The team shrinks, morale goes down, the performance is hit.

As a manager, are you investing enough in building the potential of your team members apart from your HIPo employees?

Are you investing in building your pipeline or just banking on that 20% that’s giving you 80% results?

Are you identifying skills of your team members and upskilling them to become HIPO Employees?

While it’s important to invest in your high performers, it’s equally important to build your pipeline

Here are some proactive measures that can help us build the pipeline and not just bank on the HIPO employees:

• Skill / Will – Identify the skill set of your team members

• Coach – Schedule coaching conversations, start small, one task at a time

• Delegate- Authorise, empower and delegate low impact tasks to start with, monitor and share feedback

• Upskill – Invest in training and skill building

Invest in your team members and help them become performers.

Don’t just focus on your performers. Give your team members the opportunity.

You never know some team member may be waiting for that chance, trust and opportunity.

Someone believed in you, trust in them.
Help them grow, they will help you grow.

Keen to hear your thoughts in the comments!