Challenging more talented employees

Teres DevelopmentLeadership and Business Development Consultancy

Sydney, Australia

Scope• Talented employees

• The need to challenge talent

• Challenging talented employees:

• Organisational level

• Leadership level

Talented Employees• We are all familiar with wasted talent

• Known as:

• Talented

• Gifted

• Gurus

• Not Necessarily:• Ideal employees

• High performers

• Possess ability

The Need to Challenge Gurus• Inspires performance

• Competition• If you don’t, the competition will• Or they will, By starting their own firm

• Prevent evil

• Capitalise on ability• Maximising performance• Business objectives

Approaches to Challenging Talented Employees

Organisational Level• At it’s core• Priorities• Engrained in practices

• Vision centric

• Championed by leadership

• Reflected in systems

Leadership Level

Improve your own ability• Forefront of leadership

challenges

• Technical ability to leadership skills.

• Balance• Current needs• Future needs

Job design / redesign / enrichment

• Job design• Complete overhaul

• Redesign• Strengths focus

• Enrichment• Expansion of control

Set broad business goals with them• Innovation, creativity flexibility –

Core motivators

• Broad goals:• Capitalises on talent• Maintains influence / control• Requires environmental understanding

• Key challenges:• Directing goal towards team objectives• Integrating outputs

Celebrate their ability. • Inspires team members to achieve

• Shared by the individual and group

• Reinforces positive behaviours and decision making

• Promotes the image of a successful team

• Enhances your relationships

• Easily implementable

Set specific challenging goals with them• Organisational needs – Core

motivator

• Specific goals:• Capitalises on talent• Directs efforts• Increased commitment

• Key Challenge:• Overcoming technical leader gap

Develop them

• Invest in their ability

• Technical skills

• Leadership ability

Leaders develop their followers

Set specific challenging goals for them• Influence / Control – Core motivator

• Specific challenging goals:• Allows technical freedom• Directs efforts• Develops team member• Suites new hires

• Key challenges:• Relationship Management• Capitalising on talent

Combine them

• Develop yourself

• Develop your talent

• Build your trust

• Communicate to them

Basic Principles• Set the right direction

• Align people

• Motivate and inspire

• Deliver results

• Deliver feedback

Summary

• Challenging talent is critical to future success

• Core organisational priority

• Personalised, leader driven approach

Questions and Discussion

Teres DevelopmentTeres Development is a boutique consulting firm which capitalises on the extensive business acumen, leadership, planning skills and experiences of its consultants through offering premium leadership and business development services to the public and private sector.

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