Are You Supporting Your Top Performers Enough – and Your Poor Performers Too Much?
“Train your top performers to fly, or they’ll find another sky.”
Last week, at our Quarterly Growth Planning Day, our client community shared a recurring insight:
Many SME leaders are neglecting their top performers.
While time and energy are swallowed up firefighting and correcting mistakes from poor performers (or uncommitted people with a poor attitude, not aligned to the core values), your best people are left unsupported… and some end up leaving.
Meanwhile, underperformers stay, holding the business back.
If you want to scale your business, your focus should:
✅Empower your top talent to lead, innovate, and take responsibility.
✅Deal decisively with poor performance, before it drags everyone down.
✅Create accountability across the team so you’re not stuck firefighting.
Your top performers are your growth engine – treat them like it, prioritise them, help them and empower those people to take more responsibility.
Scaling isn’t about working harder, it’s about getting the right people in the right seats.
Then enabling and encouraging them to step up and take responsibility.
“Great leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.” – Tom Peters
Ready to realign your business?
If you want to retain your top people and relieve yourself of underperformers, get in touch for a free discovery session – let’s make your team your growth engine.
Further resources to help you act now:
Read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Watch How To Lead with Radical Candor by Kim Scott
“Train your top performers to fly, or they’ll find another sky.”
Last week, at our Quarterly Growth Planning Day, our client community shared a recurring insight:
Many SME leaders are neglecting their top performers.
While time and energy are swallowed up firefighting and correcting mistakes from poor performers (or uncommitted people with a poor attitude, not aligned to the core values), your best people are left unsupported… and some end up leaving.
Meanwhile, underperformers stay, holding the business back.
If you want to scale your business, your focus should:
✅Empower your top talent to lead, innovate, and take responsibility.
✅Deal decisively with poor performance, before it drags everyone down.
✅Create accountability across the team so you’re not stuck firefighting.
Your top performers are your growth engine – treat them like it, prioritise them, help them and empower those people to take more responsibility.
Scaling isn’t about working harder, it’s about getting the right people in the right seats.
Then enabling and encouraging them to step up and take responsibility.
“Great leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.” – Tom Peters
Ready to realign your business?
If you want to retain your top people and relieve yourself of underperformers, get in touch for a free discovery session – let’s make your team your growth engine.
Further resources to help you act now:
Read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Watch How To Lead with Radical Candor by Kim Scott