Help Identify the Differences Between High Potential Employees and Highly Driven Employees

A significant amount of our work at Advantexe Learning Solutions is the design, development, and delivery of learning engagements for high potential leaders. Over the past six weeks, I have personally delivered four significant engagements utilizing business simulations to leading organizations in the Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Technology, and Professional Services industries to a variety of audiences.

It happens every once in a while. That rare and incredible opportunity to be in the esteemed presence of “the smartest person in the room.” You know this person: he / she knows all of the answers, doesn’t need to learn anything new, talks over people, talks down to people, and is basically just plain rude to everyone around because after all, this IS the smartest person in the room!

It was truly one of the nicest compliments I have received in my more than 25 years of designing, developing, and delivering business simulation training engagements: “I have never heard a group of participants ever say they actually like the pre-work!” This comment came from one of the most innovative and well respected talent development professionals in the industry and I was thrilled to hear his comments and reaction.

Every week Advantexe has the opportunity to design, develop, and deliver business leadership and strategic business selling talent development engagements for clients around the world. We are exposed to thousands of different companies executing many flavors of business strategies and the lessons learned from our work is shared in the form of blogs and eBooks in our virtual Business Acumen 101 learning solution.

Every day around the world, business leaders ask their employees to be more innovative. And at the end of the day, most leaders are left frustrated and disappointed because nothing has changed. The employees “don’t get it,” or worse yet, they don’t care enough.