Let Them Run with Scissors: How to Unleash Your Top Performers to Achieve Outrageous Results

The Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) tells us that 20% of your people drive 80% of your results. These 20% are your high performers – the team members who take on nearly any challenge and find a way to make it successful.  

But keeping high performers highly motivated requires more from their leaders. You know who your rockstars are – but do you know what they want? Are you delivering it? 

In this dynamic presentation, Patricia will show you how to give your peak performers the five things they secretly want most:

1. A fan club: With you as the leader! Here’s how to give your peak performers the supporters, allies, cheerleaders and admirers they crave. 
2. Red carpet treatment: Every one of your rock stars wants to be treated special.  Give them this special treatment and you not only fasten their loyalty to your company, you also get the chance to leverage the envy of others to help them strive to join their ranks.  Here’s how to do it right. 
3. Green M&Ms: Okay, not specifically candy –  but they want a custom experience at work. Figure out their specific needs and demands, personally and professionally, and configure their workspace, workday and work circumstances accordingly. Make them feel special and they’ll continue to bring their special skill set to your office.  
4. The spotlight: high performers want visibility, new opportunities, open vistas full of new mountains to climb, and higher quality leadership.  Here’s how to figure out what that means to each of them so that you can put them “on stage” and watch them perform optimally for your team.
5. An agent: your relationship with your superstars is a critical – if not THE critical – difference maker.  They need to know you are invested in their career, cheering them on, ready to help them as needed, and relentlessly pursuing opportunities in which they can shine for you. 

Leaders who attend this session will be equipped to:

• Identify and employ the leadership strategies that enable the team to reach its highest potential and meet objectives
• Retain and energize their top performers – the 20% who make the greatest impact on their bottom line
• Drive stronger business results by getting the most from your highest performers
• Build wild loyalty among your best people, so they can stay with you, doing their best, for the long term
• Cultivate a culture within their teams that fosters engagement and improves productivity

A study by faculty at Indiana’s Kelley School of Business found that high performers are actually 400% more productive than average performers. When you harness their incredible abilities, nurture them properly and nourish them adequately, you will quickly grow a highly loyal, phenomenally productive, high-producing teammate who will transform your company permanently. Each one of your high performers is a key to achieving your goals. 

This program shows you how to delight them, care for them, feed them, retain them…and keep them excited about their work. In a tight talent market, caring for your top performers has never been a better idea!