Yesterday our CRO Darin Fox presented four recommendations on “what does a high-performing expert look like?” - coders, scientists, researchers, engineers, individual contributors.
The recommendations are based on analysis of 4000 stakeholder inputs into the performance reviews of experts, with roughly 292,000 data points.
Darin made four recommendations:
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Always hire experts who show interest in mentoring, succession planning, and industry trends outside the technical sphere - the data shows they’re pretty much guaranteed to be strong across the board
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The most effective development you can offer experts is to build their commercial acumen, and help them take leadership of change.
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Despite the stereotype, never assume experts are “bad with people”. Actually their stakeholders are pretty happy with them.
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And finally, and this to me is really important: You can reduce flight risk, ie motivate and retain experts by challenging them to take on the “hidden” parts of the expert role to their mandate.
Download the presentation below.
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