Apr 26, 2018, 2:39 PM
(from Harvard Business Review) If you don't give your best employees opportunities to learn and grow, they will likely either leave for new opportunities or even worse, mail it in. The human brain is designed to learn, not just during our childhood school years but throughout our life spans. When we are learning, we experience higher levels of brain activity and many feel-good brain chemicals are produced. Managers would do well to remember that.
Every organization is a collection of people on different learning curves. You build an A team by optimizing these individual curves with a mix of people: 15 percent of them at the low end of the curve, just starting to learn new skills; 70 percent in the sweet spot of engagement; and 15 percent at the high end of mastery. As you manage employees all along the learning curve, requiring them to jump to a new curve when they reach the top, you will have a company full of people who are engaged.
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