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Companies fare badly at identifying high-potential employees

Companies are faring badly at identifying high-potential employees, according to an article in Harvard Business Review by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, CEO and president of leadership development consultancy Zenger/Folkman. The writers point out that to help high-potential employees — usually in the top five per cent in an organisation — companies often institute high-potential programmes. And yet, according to data from research by the duo, more than 40 per cent of individuals in such programmes may not belong there. “When we looked at the participants in the HIPO (high-potential) programs, 12 per cent were in their organisation’s bottom quartile