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While most employees strive to excel, being a high performer can come with drawbacks, including high-pressure goals,
meeting overload, and reduced flexibility. Retaining your high performers - and developing new ones - is critical in
today's uncertain, fast-paced business environment. Here's how to do it.

This tip is adapted from
"[3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive](https://hbr.org/2024/06/3-ways-to-build-a-culture-that-lets-high-performers-thrive)" by Lindsay
McGregor and Neel Doshi

Minimize Meetings
-----------------

Cut down on unnecessary meetings to free up your employees' time for truly impactful work. This means establishing a
simple, predictable weekly meeting schedule for your team, as well as optimizing your one-on-ones.

Measure Motivation
------------------

Use surveys regularly to assess your team members' motivation and understand what excites or creates stress for them.
For example, ask: What habits does the team want to improve? What are some specific ideas to improve those habits? Then
create quarterly improvement plans to address any pain points.

Mentor High-Potential Employees on Key Skills
---------------------------------------------

To ensure your high performers feel challenged and your developing employees are growing, schedule quarterly
skill-development meetings for each of your direct reports. Use that time to identify one concrete, high-leverage skill
(think problem-solving or leadership) for them to improve in the next quarter.
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While most employees strive to excel, being a high performer can come with drawbacks, including high-pressure goals,
meeting overload, and reduced flexibility. Retaining your high performers - and developing new ones - is critical in
today's uncertain, fast-paced business environment. Here's how to do it.
> Cover image source: [Source](https://image.civitai.com/xG1nkqKTMzGDvpLrqFT7WA/208fc754-890d-4adb-9753-2c963332675d/width=2048/01651-1456859105-(colour_1.5),girl,_Blue,yellow,green,cyan,purple,red,pink,_best,8k,UHD,masterpiece,male%20focus,%201boy,gloves,%20ponytail,%20long%20hair,.jpeg)
This tip is adapted from
"[3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive](https://hbr.org/2024/06/3-ways-to-build-a-culture-that-lets-high-performers-thrive)" by Lindsay
McGregor and Neel Doshi
This blog template is built with [Astro](https://astro.build/). For the things that are not mentioned in this guide, you may find the answers in the [Astro Docs](https://docs.astro.build/).

Minimize Meetings
-----------------
## Front-matter of Posts

Cut down on unnecessary meetings to free up your employees' time for truly impactful work. This means establishing a
simple, predictable weekly meeting schedule for your team, as well as optimizing your one-on-ones.
```yaml
---
title: My First Blog Post
published: 2023-09-09
description: This is the first post of my new Astro blog.
image: ./cover.jpg
tags: [Foo, Bar]
category: Front-end
draft: false
---
```

| Attribute | Description |
|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `title` | The title of the post. |
| `published` | The date the post was published. |
| `description` | A short description of the post. Displayed on index page. |
| `image` | The cover image path of the post.<br/>1. Start with `http://` or `https://`: Use web image<br/>2. Start with `/`: For image in `public` dir<br/>3. With none of the prefixes: Relative to the markdown file |
| `tags` | The tags of the post. |
| `category` | The category of the post. |
| `draft` | If this post is still a draft, which won't be displayed. |

## Where to Place the Post Files

Measure Motivation
------------------

Use surveys regularly to assess your team members' motivation and understand what excites or creates stress for them.
For example, ask: What habits does the team want to improve? What are some specific ideas to improve those habits? Then
create quarterly improvement plans to address any pain points.

Mentor High-Potential Employees on Key Skills
---------------------------------------------
Your post files should be placed in `src/content/posts/` directory. You can also create sub-directories to better organize your posts and assets.

To ensure your high performers feel challenged and your developing employees are growing, schedule quarterly
skill-development meetings for each of your direct reports. Use that time to identify one concrete, high-leverage skill
(think problem-solving or leadership) for them to improve in the next quarter.
```
src/content/posts/
├── post-1.md
└── post-2/
├── cover.png
└── index.md
```

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