In the world of talent management, high-performing employees, or HIPOs, are the holy grail. Gartner research finds that HIPOs, who are smart, agile, and talented, exert 21% more effort than their ...

Diane Egbers, Founder and CEO at Leadership Excelleration, guides executives to deliver talent solutions to help leaders to succeed. A recent story crossed my radar of a young high-potential (HiPo) ...

Some executive coaches work with C-suite leaders. Others have built practices advising bosses who might struggle with collaboration or communication. My work has mostly been with high-potential ...

There is a difference between high-potential employees and high-performing employees. The pursuit of high-potential employees (HIPOs) has taken on a newfound level of consequence and importance in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. Although psychologists have evaluated human potential for ...

Psychologists have been evaluating human potential for over a century but HR practitioners have only “become obsessed with the identification of high potential employees (HiPos) of late,” said Tomas ...

Firms may need to adapt to the customized-career requirements of HiPo staff. Leaders always keep a lookout for them, companies set aside resources to groom them and workers across ranks strive to be ...