Everyone Is a Top Performer

Everyone Is a Top Performer

• 23-09-2024
• Collaborative Coaching Conversations

Everyone is a top performer in their own right. As a leader, your job is to identify their strengths, recognize opportunities, and create an environment where they can thrive.

❌ The wrong way: A leader may focus only on weaknesses, believing they need to “fix” their team. This can lead to micromanagement, burnout, and disengagement. The result? Frustrated employees who feel misunderstood or undervalued.

✅ The right way: A true leader digs deep to understand the unique strengths of each individual. Instead of trying to mold everyone into a single definition of success, they collaborate to grow what’s already great. When leaders take this approach, team members feel empowered, engaged, and more willing to contribute to the bigger picture.

Everyone has the potential to be a top performer at something. How are you growing the strengths of your team?

Video transcript

Everyone is a top performer. “Josh, what are you talking about? Not everybody’s a top performer.” The answer is yes! Everyone is a top performer. You need to communicate with them, you need to talk and collaborate with them, understand where their strengths are, where their opportunities are, and how to grow on their strengths.

Everyone is a top performer at something.

We just need to find that. The best way to find that is to really collaborate with them, to work on growing strengths, to work on reinforcing opportunities that they may have to turn them potentially into strengths. And really work with folks. And it wasn’t called coaching. It was just called leadership. For years and years and years, we said, well, a good leader does this, a good leader helps everybody else get better, works with them to get better, to get into a more successful position. So that’s what leadership is. And that’s really what we’re talking about when we’re talking about coaching. Helping people identify their strengths, identify their opportunities, work on strengthening their strengths, work on bolstering and reinforcing those opportunities. And that’s what a leader does.