Troublesome Talent® interview hits top spot for downloads
After a whirlwind month of interviews for leadership specialist Judith Germain, the Dynamic Transitions frontline woman is celebrating the news that her Troublesome Talent® interview for the NLP Expert Forum has received over 400 downloads, making it one of the sites most popular interviews.
In the ten minute interview on leadership and Troublesome Talent® conducted by Michael Beale, Director of PPI Business NLP Ltd, Germain discussed the problems faced by organisations who try to manage these highly talented but uncompromising individuals in the ‘conventional’ way.
“Troublesome Talent® are people that don’t compromise their standards to fit in. They tend to make up as much as 20% of your talent pool, but they can be bringing in about 80% of your profit” explains Germain, who was interviewed in May for UK leading internet station Glastonbury Radio’s The 21-Grams Show on the topic of Mavericks in Business and also appears twice on Accountancy Age TV speaking about the need for a mentor and why business people need to stand out from their rivals.
Germain goes on to explain in her interview that HR departments often look to solutions like Talent Management believing that what they have to do is treat each and every employee the same way, to be fair and consistent. However, that technique doesn’t work with Troublesome Talent® because you do need to treat them differently if you want to get the best from them.
“These people are extremely talented, but they only really become troublesome if they’re not lead properly. In fact, they are often not selected for talent management programmes and are not really rewarded for the good things that they can do, because people want to control them or just take away the very talent that’s made them successful (by forcing them to conform)” adds Germain, who founded Dynamic Transitions in 2005 to provide strategic mentoring, innovation leadership, coaching and training programmes for individuals, small businesses and large corporations.
The full Mavericks in Business interview is available here http://www.dynamic-transitions.knet-uk.co.uk/JudithGermaininterviewmavericks.mp3. The Troublesome Talent® interview can be downloaded from the NLP Expert Forum (http://nlp-experts.org/leadership/12-judith-germain-interview.html) or for more information about Troublesome Talent® visit www.developing-leadership.com
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