Out of sight, out of mind: Don't let your high achiever slip away!

When a high-performer starts low performing. Perhaps it is time to help them to scale up.?

When people start a new job, there’s a certain challenge that us engaged as we learn and dominate the challenge that rush begins to disappear and we lose that sense of accomplishment and awe. In addition, we know that we’re able to do more things that when we started, and our need a desire to be compensated increases. And that is when you and I look for new opportunities and begin to feel uncomfortable and incomplete.? Like something is missing and our own sense of accomplishment is no longer enough. Subconsciously we may not know how to describe it, but we know something is missing.

If you are lucky enough to detect this - work with that person and help them scale up, whether it be through new challenges, encouraging them to apply to new positions, and helping them prepare for new challeges by opening the door for them to take on different challenges and responsibilities.?

If you choose to do nothing, the outcome will be the same. They will either quit by quiet-quitting, quit by under performing (in both cases feeling feeling miserable and frustrating you along the way); they will quit by looking for a new position outside of the company feeling that they were not appreciated or valued. Or with your help they will grow and continue to appreciate you, their job and the company.

In either case it is in your best interest and in theirs for you to support them in this growth.?

You will gain a friend, a colleague, an ally. AND you will free up a much needed space for someone new that is at the beginning of the emotional curve where your position offers challenge, opportunity and growth.?

So when you see that a high-performer in your team starts low performing, perhaps it is time for you to help them to scale up.?

PS. For an interesting followup on this topic, you may want to read "BUILD AN A-TEAM: PLAY TO THEIR STRENGTHS AND LEAD THEM UP THE LEARNING CURVE" by Whitney Johnson