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High Potential
How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work
High Potential
How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work
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Description
Nurturing future talent in the workplace – choosing the right people, developing the good into the best and keeping hold of the brightest – is essential for a successful business.
This research-led yet accessible book offers a practical guide to:
Clearly understanding and defining potential
High flying personality traits to look out for and biographical markers of potential
Selecting positive high potential traits and weeding out negative traits like manipulation, superficial charm or narcissism
The best assessment and management methods
Managing high potential employees and developing their careers
Understanding why people choose to leave or stay at a company
Looking at potential in context; what it means to small vs large businesses, or the public and private sector.
High Potential provides a practical framework for showing managers how to create a strong strategic vision for a high performing, high potential workforce; a real competitive business advantage.
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Potential
Chapter 1: An Overview of Potential
Chapter 2: Types of Potential and a Model of High Flying Potential
Section 2: The Style and Character of Potential
Chapter 3: Intelligence: Capacity for Learning and Growth
Chapter 4: Personality: Traits that Reveal Potential
Chapter 5: Experience: The Most Brutal of Instructors
Chapter 6: Style, Beliefs, Attitudes & Values: From Thinking to Behaving
Chapter 7: The Dark Side & Derailment: Knavery & Flattery
Section 3: Assessment Techniques and Applications
Chapter 8: Assessment: Methods to Learn about Other People
Chapter 9: Selection: Choosing the Right People
Chapter 10: Development: From the Good to the Best
Chapter 11: Retention: Keeping the Best and the Brightest
Section 4: Strategy
Chapter 12: Strategy and Potential: Charting the Course
References
Index
Product details
Published | 01 Jun 2014 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781472913647 |
Imprint | A&C Black Business Information and Development |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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I have been waiting for a book like this for years! This is an outstanding tour-de-force in helping organisations identify and develop high potential talent. This book is in a category of its' own, and every HR professional needs to read it from cover to cover. A must read if you truly care about developing your people.
Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences
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Spotting, managing and retaining high performers is crucial for the success of any organisation - and Ian MacRae and Adrian Furnham provide a characteristically engaging and accessible account of what we know about this area, and crucially, how to make good use of this knowledge.
Professor Paul Webley, Director, SOAS, University of London
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Adrian Furnham's unique view on leadership goes from strength to strength. In his latest book with Ian MacRae he helps us to understand the importance of identifying and developing the potential that lies within our greatest asset – our people. This is the potential that got us through the interview process in the first place. Perhaps, more importantly, he shows us how to 'select out' as well as 'select in' thus preventing all the HR heartaches that arise when things go wrong.
Wing Commander Glynn Allcock, Strategic Leadership Programme. Director Defence Academy of the UK
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High Potential is not only an all-encompassing review of the science of potential but also encourages you to develop strategies on how to attract, select, develop, grow, and retain truly talented individuals in your organisation; those who in the end will make the difference.
Paul K Winter, Director Worldly Leadership Foundation
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Too often the term “High Potential” is applied to individuals who aren't because organisations fail to properly identify them. This then has a very damaging effect on both the organisation and the individual – where assessing on past performance alone this leads to over 50% failing in their next level roles. In the future this should not happen as this book deals effectively with the issues of accurate identification, development and even potential derailing of those critical to organisational success now and in the future. For the astute ambitious individual this also provides an excellent “self-development” guide.
Chris Roebuck, former Global Head of Talent and Leadership UBS and Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership Cass Business School London
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MacRae and Furnham have penned a provocative exploration of the psychology of high potential, offering creative ways to spot and develop talented people. The section on beliefs and attitudes about work highlights important territory that is sometimes overlooked.
John Hughes, Head of Leadership Development, PwC UK