Insights
June 15, 2021
Details When a company needs a supervisor for a team, senior leaders often anoint the team’s most productive performer. Some of these stars succeed
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June 8, 2021
Details Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? How
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Promoting the most productive performer to manager often backfires. The skills behind individual productivity are mostly self-focused, while great managers need other-focused skills such
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Soft skills are often treated as optional for individual contributors. Data on over 9,000 of them shows hard skills are valued more, but those
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Data from 9,288 individual contributors rated by their managers reveals the five competencies that set top performers apart. Doing three of them extremely well,
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Bosses form broad judgments from a few behaviors. Analysis of over 100,000 managers' ratings of direct reports reveals seven that matter most, led by
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March 24, 2020
Strong performance reviews aren't random. In a study of 179 leaders rated on 49 behaviors, eight were most strongly tied to a manager's performance
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