25th APRIL 2017

HIGH POTENTIAL

Amer, Chayan, Kiki, Sujith, Tom

Who is high potential

A high-potential employee is an employee who

has been identified as having the potential, ability,
and aspiration for successive leadership positions
within the company. Often, these employees are
provided with focused development as part of a
succession plan.
Characteristics
What is High Potential?

Critical
thinkers who are comfortable with
complexity and ambiguity

Canreadily deal with a wide variety of people and

tough situations

Typically in low supplybut high demand

Performs well in almost everything they take on

What is High Potential?

Critical
thinkers who are comfortable with
complexity and ambiguity

Canreadily deal with a wide variety of people and

tough situations

Typically in low supplybut high demand

Performs well in almost everything they take on

Promote Yourself
Transition to a new role means or job
means transitions in responsibilities and
habits.
The ways to promote yourself includes:
Establish clear break point.
Hit the ground running-Important miles-stones to
achieve.
Access your vulnerabilities.
Watch out for your strengths.
Relearn to learn-Although not easy to start learning
again.
Rework your network.
Be on a constant vigil for people who do not want you to
succeed.
Accelerate your Learning
Defineyour learning agenda for new
organization/role.
Mostimportant to understand the culture of the
organization.
Spend time with the external sources of information
like suppliers, customers, distributers to gain
insights.
Spend time with Historians, people who have been
with organization for long time.
Spend time with integrators like PMs who coordinate
cross functional activities in organization, to
understand hierarchies and internal conflicts.
Spend time with your direct reports to understand
their submissions and also learn about the team
environment.
Match strategy to situation
Thereare four main strategies called STaRS
Model:
1. Start-up
. Require to build and enforce things from
scratch.
1. Turn around:
. Situation requiring making quick decisions.
1. Realignment:
. Takingcharge of unit that will drift into trouble
in future and needs revitalization.
1. Sustaining Success:
.Maintain the good process in the organization
and take it to next level.
Identifying High Potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC5bYIpABt8

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y-bG6RNPww
The First 90 Days
Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All
Levels
Build your team

Question-1

Why do you think that

building your team is
important for you to
reach breakeven point?

Question-2

How to analyse your

team strategically?
Answer Question 1

Tremendous Leverage
Succession progress
Goals achievement
Strong relations
Positive
work
environment
Cooperation

Focus
Answer Question 2

Assess
current team Adjustgoals,
members individually. incentives, and
Look
measures of
at the team as a
performance to fit the
whole
team and the strategy
Look
at group
Establish
new team
dynamics
processes and assign
Restructure your team, duties
assign each member in
Explainthe processes
different categories
to the team members
Creating Coalitions

How to create
coalition in your new
position that will help
you to succeed?
Answer

Identify the key

players

Diagnoseinformal
networks of influence

Draw an influence map

KEEP YOUR BALANCE

What traps will you try

to avoid in order to
maintain your
balance?
Answer

Riding off in all directions

Undefended boundaries
Brittleness

Isolation

Biased judgment
Work avoidance
Drivingyourself to the
point of diminishing
returns.