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In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go?

High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce.

Updated to reflect more recent research in the area, the book presents an accessible guide to clearly understanding and defining potential, and how to manage high-potential employees and develop their career. New case studies show how businesses have used the concepts outlined in the book to nurture future talent in the workplace and gain a real competitive business advantage.

Table of Contents

Prelims

Preface

Section 1: Potential

Chapter 1: What is potential
Chapter 2: Potential

Section 2: The style and character of potential

Chapter 3: Intelligence: Capacity for learning and growth
Chapter 4: intelligence at work
Chapter 5: Overview of personality
Chapter 6: High potential personality traits and leadership
Chapter 7: Emerging trends in personality testing
Chapter 8: Experience: the most brutal of instructors
Chapter 9: The performance delusion
Chapter 10: How to gain experience
Chapter 11: Workplace culture and values
Chapter 12: Motivators and attitudes
Chapter 13: The dark side and derailment
Chapter 14: The toxic triangle and derailment prevention
Chapter 15: The dark side traits and characteristics

Section 3: Assessment: Techniques and applications

Chapter 16 Assessment: Methods to learn about other people
Chapter 17: Methods for assessing people at work
Chapter 18: Selection: Choosing the right people
Chapter 19: Training
Chapter 20: Development systems
Chapter 21: Developing and coaching high potential
Chapter 22: to 23): Retention: Keeping the best and the brightest


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Product details

Published 22 Feb 2018
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 2nd
Pages 360
ISBN 9781472953476
Imprint Bloomsbury Business
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Ian MacRae

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