Description
Every manager wants a talented team. The organisational benefits of engaging talented people are clearly 111 demonstrated. However, talented people present a significant challenge to the people who are asked to manage them on a daily basis.
Highly talented people don't respond well to a 'command and control' hierarchy. They don't come to work because they need a pay cheque they have very different values and motivation to the majority of people.
More is expected of them and they expect more in return. They get bored more readily. They need different kinds of challenges. They are a different kind of person and they need a different kind of management.
The manager of a talented team needs to learn quickly how to spot and respond to talent, how to enable it to grow, while gently directing its course. The manager of a talented team needs to thoroughly understand what role they play in the team's success and communicate that subtly but effectively, To be respected and to be the person that the talented individual is happy to be led by
It's a tough act. But get it right and the rewards are high when high talent is high performing and it's reflecting on you.
This is the book that explores what talent is, how to recognise it and how to deal with it on a day by day basis to eke the very best out of high talent individuals, while keeping them happy and motivated and in your team.
