{"id":220901,"date":"2019-05-24T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/?p=220901"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T06:27:29","slug":"so-you-just-hired-a-high-performernow-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/2019\/05\/24\/so-you-just-hired-a-high-performernow-what\/","title":{"rendered":"So you just hired a \u201chigh performer\u201d\u2026now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this series of articles\nour Org Psych, Virginia Henningsen, takes you through real-life (anonymised of\ncourse) examples of personalities you are likely to encounter when recruiting\nfor your startup\/scaleup and the tips and approaches you can apply to bring out\ntheir best. Yes, there are also pitfalls to look out for and some people\nyou might want to avoid at all costs!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over to Virginia…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just hired someone who you know has\npotential? They are not the 100% perfect fit for the role, but maybe they\nwill be, with time? No one\u2019s perfect \u2013 even our high performers need the right\nmanagement to enable them to succeed, but what is the \u2018right\u2019 management?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you\u2019ve hired or are thinking of\nhiring someone like James?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find below my suggestions for James, he\nwas assessed by me as an aspiring senior level manager with a strong learning\norientation, well developed interpersonal and leadership skills, and the\nability to consult, collaborate and listen to others and seek advice. James\nis highly motivated, achievement-oriented, persistent and driven with a good\nlevel of self-awareness and insight.  So what does he need to\nsucceed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly he needs…to read more of this article click here<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can find Virginia on<\/strong>\u00a0Scale & Swing<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Ucities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>. She\u2019s like our very own Wendy Rhoades from the hit tv show\u00a0<\/strong>Billions<\/strong><\/em>. Well, at least in terms of her role in helping Founders get the best out of their startup\u2019s most important asset \u2013 their people. She\u2019s actually nothing like the character!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to get the best out of your high performers. What would Wendy Rhoades from Billions suggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":217497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[42,45,43,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaleandswing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}