high potentials

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 3—Engage in Targeted Professional and Personal Development

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 3—Engage in Targeted Professional and Personal Development

We discussed creating your vision and assessing your strengths and development areas. Now it’s time to design a targeted professional and personal development plan for getting from here to there. First, define the gaps. Then, devise a customized change plan.

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 2—Assess Yourself

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 2—Assess Yourself

Top companies that have figured out how to manage its talent well use a variety of tools to help identify high potentials within its ranks and understand their development needs. This article discusses how you can incorporate assessment techniques into your own process of A-listing yourself.

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 1—Figure Out What You Want

Become Your Own High Potential: Part 1—Figure Out What You Want

High potentials are those employees that managers consider essential to their organization’s future. They enjoy a kind of special status in their companies and are groomed for career advancement. But what if you are not "in the club," even though you want to be or think you should be? Become your own high potential. This article reviews the first in a series of six steps to A-listing yourself.