{"id":917,"date":"2008-06-24T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2008-06-24T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:01:08","slug":"your-best-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Your Best Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So who are your best employees?\u00a0 Are they simply the top performance scores?\u00a0 Are they the ones who hold the most patents?\u00a0 Have the best win ratio when in court?\u00a0 I\u2019m a firm believer that while there are some natural top performers, it is also a skill that can be learned.\u00a0 HBR outlines some key characteristics of top performers that I think can generally be learned and trained.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elite performers don\u2019t get distracted by the victories of competitors.<\/li>\n<li>Superstars have an insatiable demand for honest, immediate feedback.\u00a0 But it must be constructive, stars don\u2019t engage in self-flagellation.<\/li>\n<li>Champions train with the competition to push themselves to new limits.\u00a0 They continuously reinvent themselves \u2013 especially after they become the benchmark.<\/li>\n<li>Elite performers know how to party.\u00a0 But celebrating ranks ninth on their list of top 10 reasons for wanting to win.\u00a0 ((Jones, Graham.\u00a0 June 2008.\u00a0 \u201cHow the Best of the Best get Better and Better.\u201d\u00a0 Harvard Business Review, page 124.))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So how do you put in a learning program that trains employees to want honest feedback?\u00a0 How do you make someone want to be competitive?\u00a0 Well, as deflating as this may be, I have no idea.\u00a0 My own personal experience is that the path to these characteristics is through mentorship.\u00a0 I only posit this because 1) I believe I myself am a top performer, and 2) I firmly believe that my work persona is a learned personality.\u00a0 Shy, quiet and certainly not an overachiever as a child, I do exhibit three of the above four characteristics (I\u2019m really not a good partier).\u00a0 My first (and possibly only) mentor taught me by careful example.\u00a0 Darryl led me not only through example, but the sheer repetition of philosophy.\u00a0 He believed that in business there indeed was an absolute right and wrong, and when you were right, the drive to success was not ambition, but simply a way to make the world better.\u00a0 Send me your thoughts on how you can influence your employees to attain these characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So who are your best employees?\u00a0 Are they simply the top performance scores?\u00a0 Are they the ones who hold the most patents?\u00a0 Have the best win ratio when in court?\u00a0 I\u2019m a firm believer that while there are some natural&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-management","category-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}