Harvard Business Review | How to Spot High-Potential Talent in Your Organization

Companies struggle to identify their next-gen leaders, and for good reasons.

When you don’t know what the future will bring, how do you figure out who has — or can acquire — the right strengths to meet those challenges?

Businesses typically look to past performance to identify future leaders. This is the case in hiring entry-levels as well as in identifying potential leaders internally.

But someone’s past doesn’t tell you who might excel at things they haven’t done before, nor does it identify early-career high potentials or people who haven’t had equitable access to mentoring, sponsorship, development, and advancement opportunities.

Grounding high potential identification in past achievements is a recipe for failure.

Instead, to identify future leaders you need Human Potential Analytics, which enable you to look deeper into the person’s behavioral impact factors: their cognitive, emotional/interpersonal, drive/motivation, learning/growth, and creative/innovation factors.

Source: Harvard Business Review.

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