Arts Leadership Review: Autumn 2018

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GETTING REAL ABOUT

Your People David Seals Director of Client Development

Every person on your team is growing daily in one of two directions: adding to or detracting from the work. As the chief executive, it’s illuminating to ask yourself two honest questions: 6

1. 2.

Visualize your star performer, the one you can count on when it matters. What characteristics define

them? What affect do they have on the organization? On the people around them?

Visualize your lowest performing employee. What characteristics define them? What affect do they have on the organization? On the people around them? Great chief executives not only ask these questions regularly, they do something with the answers. What to do is rarely simple and never easy, yet the cost of doing nothing (for both high and low-performing employees) is staggering. So how do you proceed?

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