Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great Teams like the Pros

CHAPTER 3

THE DEVELOPMENT: MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE

In the first two chapters of this book, we spent time discussing how you can identify the best employees available from a large and growing pool. We then focused on creating a specific mission statement and implementing it within your organization so that you can maintain your focus and drive your new hires forward in a meaningful and efficient manner. With those lessons in hand, we now turn to developing new hires and current talent and maximizing their performance.

The first step in understanding this concept is shifting your thought process from the old ideas of team development, which don’t necessarily work anymore. Some of today’s team members might fall in line, but to maximize their performance ...