{"id":1237,"date":"2007-10-15T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/6-reasons-why-top-performers-leave\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:10:16","slug":"6-reasons-why-top-performers-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/6-reasons-why-top-performers-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons Why Top Performers Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tight employment markets require a successful hiring processes <em>and<\/em> strong retention programs.&nbsp; Companies have to play good defense when it comes to the rainmakers within their sales department.&nbsp; CareerJournal.com &#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/myc\/management\/20071011-loeb.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&amp;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">Six Reasons Top Performers Seek Out Greener Pastures<\/a> lays out a handful of clear pitfalls to avoid in this present market.<\/p>\n<p>First off, number 1 is rudimentary&#8230;and, in our experience,&nbsp;the most abused of the list:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>They receive few rewards for good behavior. <\/b>If high performers receive no extra kudos or compensation for their extraordinary performance, they&#8217;ll begin to wonder whether it&#8217;s worth putting in the extra effort. It&#8217;s important to acknowledge those who work to promote the success of the whole company. If you can&#8217;t afford to reward them financially, find another way to recognize their contributions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In sales, you have many different egos.&nbsp; Part of the sales manager&#8217;s job is to sort out the right buttons for each individual.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">That is an area in which we help managers.<\/a>&nbsp; The most common transgression we see is the sales manager who projects his or her reward pattern on to all of their salespeople.&nbsp; They assume every is like them and responds to the same rewards.&nbsp; Big mistake.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>They feel underutilized or unchallenged.<\/b> Because of their need for mastery, high performing employees can get easily frustrated and bored when their roles become too circumscribed or stagnant. The antidote: Feed them a steady diet of challenges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monotony drives change for many salespeople.&nbsp; If they begin to view each day as the same day over and over (remember the movie Groundhog Day?), they will start to look for a new challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tight employment markets require a successful hiring processes and strong retention programs.&nbsp; Companies have to play good defense when it comes to the rainmakers within their sales department.&nbsp; CareerJournal.com &#8216;s Six Reasons Top Performers Seek Out Greener Pastures lays out a handful of clear pitfalls to avoid in this present market. First off, number 1 is rudimentary&#8230;and, in our experience,&nbsp;the most abused of the list: They receive few rewards for good behavior. If high performers receive no extra kudos or compensation for their extraordinary performance, they&#8217;ll begin to wonder whether it&#8217;s worth putting in the extra effort. 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