3What Is a High Performer and How Do You Become One?

Selecting the Right Path to Increase the Chance of Success

IF YOU ASK typical managers to identify their high-performing individuals, they know right away who they are. They name them based on a range of criteria including performance, experience, attitude, corporate metrics, and subjectivity. Many large organizations have relatively sophisticated and quantitative metrics, as you might expect, while medium and smaller businesses use a slightly smaller number of formulas or metrics, though they all can easily determine their high performers.

If you stop and think for a moment, you probably can identify who you think are the high-performing people in your department or organization. You may consider ...

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