Identify and Unleash Potential in Your Employees
Identify and Unleash Potential in Your Employees
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
The battle for great talent is fiercer than ever, and managers like you are facing what rightly feels like a challenge. The question becomes: How do you identify the best candidates quickly so you can start investing in their professional development, ensuring they reach their full potential in your organization? In this course, you'll learn how to identify even hidden talent to make sure that you're hiring and developing the right people in the right ways. Your instructor is Larry Cornett, a leadership coach and business advisor with a PhD in psychology and decades of experience in the tech industry. After taking this course, you'll be prepared to recognize the best job candidates and avoid common hiring pitfalls. you'll also be equipped with the knowledge and concrete strategies you need to nurture employee potential to ensure their success and your own, starting today.
Syllabus
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A new model for potential Many companies mistakenly identify only a tiny fraction of their staff as high potential. 3m
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Observe reactions A growth mindset is one of the key characteristics of a high-potential employee. 3m
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Track real overall performance Successful performance goes way beyond outcomes. 4m
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The past isn’t their potential Employers recruit talent based on degrees, experience, and skills, but mistakenly correlate those with potential. 3m
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Extroversion can be misleading Extroverted people tend to receive a lot of attention and their outgoing nature can be misidentified as potential. 3m
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Develop their strengths Your high-potential employees will thrive when they get a chance to play to their strengths. 3m
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Provide great opportunities Potential doesn’t mean much if you let it go to waste. 4m
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Champion their success The most successful employees have advisers, mentors, and champions. 4m
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Don’t only focus on weaknesses Even high-potential employees shouldn’t ignore their weaknesses, but a management model with an intense focus on eliminating them is outdated. 4m
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Don’t assume there's one path It is unfortunate that so many companies define potential as “leadership potential.” In this lesson, you'll learn how to be more flexible in creating career paths for your high-potential employees. 3m
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Make individual performance soar When you successfully identify and unleash potential in your employees, they deliver almost double the value to your organization. 4m
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Improve talent retention High-potential employees can be at risk for becoming disengaged and leaving your organization. 4m
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Achieve organizational excellence An organization should be more than the sum of its high-potential parts. 3m
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Next steps Your leadership success depends on your ability to identify and develop your high-potential employees. 1m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Larry Cornett, PhD
Dr. Cornett is the founder of Brilliant Forge LLC. He’s a leadership coach, business advisor, and career advisor focused on helping people claim their power and regain their freedom. He works with ambitious professionals who want to accelerate their leadership development, career growth, and business success.He spent over 20 years in the Silicon Valley tech industry as a designer, UX leader, Product executive, and startup founder. He worked for a number of small startups and larger corporations, including IBM, Apple Computer, eBay, and Yahoo.He leveraged his Ph.D. in Psychology to start as a designer and researcher, then spent the rest of his career working his way up into management, executive leadership, and eventually founding his own tech startup as the CEO.
Larry Cornett, PhD
Editor in Chief at Invincible Career; Career Coach and Advisor
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How GoSkills helped Chris
I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.
